Place-Based Partisanship
How Place (Re)produces Americans' Partisan Attachments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2230282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Ternullo (0000-0003-4079-299X, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 130 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-343 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/731768 |
| OpenAlex | W4399518865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 129 |
How does place inform Americans’ partisan attachments? This article takes up this question by drawing on four rounds of interviews with residents across two midwestern cities that share several demographic characteristics but have voted differently in presidential elections for decades. These cases pose a puzzle to existing scholarship, which often argues that place politics is rooted in local structural characteristics—economics and demographics. Instead, the author argues that local organizational arrangements mediate residents’ experiences of both local structural conditions and national politics, leading them to cohere around shared understandings of their social problems and how their social identities fit into party politics. This can lead similar people to identify with different political parties. By identifying local organizations as a key mechanism linking place to partisanship, this article contributes to classic and growing literatures on the relationship between place and politics and also sheds new light on political variation across the industrial heartland
Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |