Social Determinism and Rationality as Bases of Party Identification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3365749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur S Goldberg (University of Rochester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-25 |
| Publication date | 1969-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1954281 |
| OpenAlex | W4246803020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
In The Responsible Electorate, V. O. Key urged upon us "the perverse and unorthodox argument ... that voters are not fools." He challenged the notion that the voting act is the deterministic resultant of psychological and sociological vectors. He believed that the evidence supported the view of the voter as a reasonably rational fellow. The present article offers a corollary to Key's "unorthodox argument." It suggests that certain sociological determinants, secifically group norms regarding party identification, may, upon examination, prove to be rational guides to action. For the voter who is a reasonably rational fellow, it will be argued, these group norms may seem rather sensible.Before proceeding to the analysis of data, some discussion of the notion of rationality seems in order. The usage subscribed to in the present analysis derives from contemporary game theory. Put most simply, being rational in a decision situation consists in examining the alternatives with which one is confronted, estimating and evaluating the likely consequences of each, and selecting that alternative which yields the most attractive set of expectations. Formally, this process entails making calculations of the following type as a basis for the decision:where:E(Vai) = expected value of alternative i.P(oj∣ai) = probability of outcome j given that V(oi) = value of outcome j to the decision maker
Action (physics · Argument (complex analysis · Corollary · Determinism · Ecological rationality · Economics · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Law and economics · Mathematical economics · Outcome (game theory · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rationality · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Voting · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
Propensão ao risco e ambição progressiva
Party Identification and Political Socialization
Pockets of responsibility in the American electorate
The emergence of the Swiss Ecological Party
The Potentiality of Dimensional Analyses for Explaining Voting and Party Competition [1]
Biases in the effects of family background characteristics on voting preference
Creating Political Reality
The symbolic uses of politics
Formal theories of mass behavior.
The Responsible Electorate
The Child's Political World
Use of Dummy Variables in Regression Equations
Political socialization
Public opinion and Congressional elections
An economic theory of democracy
American Voting Behavior
Party Loyalty and the Likelihood of Deviating Elections
Politicization of the Electorate in France and the United States
Youth and Political Change
Occupational Mobility in the United States
Primary Group Influence on Party Loyalty
Discerning a Causal Pattern among Data on Voting Behavior
Spatial Models of Party Competition
A Theory of the Calculus of Voting
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2012 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |