Rallying Around the Party: A Theory of Party Identity Linkage

<p>This dissertation proposes that party identification, as a social identity, fundamentally alters individual processing of and reactions to political information and events. I present a <italic>party identity linkage theory</italic> in which I argue party identity can lead to hei...

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Main Author: Freeze, Melanie Sue
Other Authors: Aldrich, John H
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5560