Listening to the Coalition Merchants
Measuring the Intellectual Influence of Academic Scribblers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13057749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hubert Noël (0000-0003-4836-7955, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2194-6183 • E-ISSN: 1540-8884 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2202/1540-8884.1198 |
| OpenAlex | W2006550976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 21 |
Following Converse's advice that ideology is the product of a ``creative synthesis," conducted by a narrow group of intellectuals, this paper reports on attempts to study ideology at its point of creation. I develop a measure of ideology expressed among pundits, based on coded opinion pieces in magazines and newspapers from 1830 to 1990. I use this measure to test the impact of ideas on party coalitions. I argue that ideologies, as created by intellectuals, strongly influence the coalitions that party leaders advance. In three cases the realignment on slavery before the Civil War, the Civil Rights realignment in the mid-20th century, and the party change on abortion more recently there is evidence that intellectuals reorganize the issues before parties realign around them. This evidence suggests that the patterns of ``what goes with what" that intellectuals design have an impact on the nature of political cleavages
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Citizen Activity
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |