1. Partisan Identity, Age and Gender in Five Local Area Surveys.
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Bing, John H.
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PARTISANSHIP , *POLITICAL attitudes , *POLITICAL participation , *POLITICAL parties - Abstract
Utilizing six surveys of political attitudes and behavior for a local community in Ohio (from 1980 to 2005), the author demonstrates that gender based age cohorts change their reported party identity in different directions at different times, suggesting that socialization to political life may vary across time and with gender. It is further suggested that the concept of party identity may embrace multiple meanings and that gender/age cohort groups may attach different meanings to their avowal of attachment or lack of attachment to political parties, meanings that lead to different responses to ongoing political contexts and stimuli. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006