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- What is party identification? How do academics measure an individual’s partisanship effectively? How does partisanship influence vote choice, and how is party loyalty important for understanding the political behavior of Americans?
- Explain the median voter theorem and its implications. What modifications could be made for a broader spatial model of political decision-making? What evidence from actual elections supports (or detracts from) the median voter theorem and related models?
- What do we mean by the term political trust, and what are some related factors? What are the trends in political trust among the American electorate? What factors influence the level of political trust? What are impacts of political trust?
- Discuss the impact of issue voting in American elections. What are some key socioeconomic and demographic (group) characteristics that form cleavages on issues preferences and vote choice? Provide evidence from lecture as well as from our texts as support. Are some cleavages more fundamental in American political behavior than others?
- What do we mean by partisan realignment or a realigning election? What are some key historical experiences that would count as a realignment, and why? Are we currently (2016, 2018) in a period of realignment? Why or why not?
- Based on the material from the texts and presented in class, how can we explain the unexpected outcome of the 2016 presidential election?
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