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Issue Evolution, Population Replacement, and Normal Partisan Change

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  • Carmines, Edward G.
  • Stimson, James A.

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Students of American political behavior have usually turned to “critical election” realignment theories to explain the dynamics of long-term change in the party system. These theories are problematic on both theoretical and empirical grounds. A theory that can account for change within the context of a stable electoral system is required. We propose a theory of issue evolution that explains normal partisan change, and illustrate the theory by examining the impact of racial issues on party identification. The theory looks to the evolution of new issues as the stimulus of partisan change and to the continuous replacement of the electorate as the mechanism through which such change is effected. In a comparison of three theoretical models of issue evolution, we conclude that racial desegregation has provoked a subtle but permanent change in the recruitment of new members of political parties.

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  • Carmines, Edward G. & Stimson, James A., 1981. "Issue Evolution, Population Replacement, and Normal Partisan Change," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(1), pages 107-118, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:75:y:1981:i:01:p:107-118_17
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    1. Edward G. Carmines, 1991. "The Logic of Party Alignments," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 3(1), pages 65-80, January.
    2. Szulanski, Gabriel, 2000. "The Process of Knowledge Transfer: A Diachronic Analysis of Stickiness," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 82(1), pages 9-27, May.
    3. Howard L. Reiter, 1989. "Party Decline in the West A Skeptic's View," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 1(3), pages 325-348, July.

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