{"product_id":"the-reputational-premium-9780691154145","title":"The Reputational Premium","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this book explains why party identification in contemporary American politics and enables voters to make coherent policy choices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is succinct and will therefore appeal to students in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on political behaviour and US politics. The book is the first in a long while to take a fresh look at the concept of party identification, therefore a must read for scholars conducting research on elections and voting. Given the centrality of party identification to understanding US politics, this book is recommended to scholars engaged in all areas of study in US government and politics.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  Chapter 1: Introduction 1  Our Story 3      Chapter 2: A Reputational Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning 12  Premises 12  The Institutional Basis of Party- Centered Voting 13  Characteristics of Choice Sets in Politics 16  Reputational Reasoning and Candidate Positioning 23      Chapter 3: Lessons from a Sterile Downsian Environment 34  Issues of Identity 34  A Thought Experiment: Policy Reasoning in a Sterilized Downsian Space 36  The Downsian Experiment 37  Party and Partisanship in the Absence of Party 42  Lessons from a Sterile Downsian Environment 62      Chapter 4: The Electoral Logic of Party Reputations 64  The Errors- and- Bias Interpretation of Party Identifi cation 64  The Canonical Theory of Party Identifi cation 71  Programmatic Partisans and Reputational Premiums in Policy Reasoning 77  Candidate Positioning and the Reputational Premium: The Order Rule 79  Alternative Hypotheses on Candidate Positioning 82  Replication: The Order Rule 89  When Candidate Positions and Party Reputations Conflict 92  Caveat Lector 93      Chapter 5: The Democratic Experiment: A Supply- Side Theory of Political Ideas and Institutions 95  A Reputational Theory of Party Identifi cation and Policy Reasoning 96  A Party- Centered Supply- Side Approach to the Question of Citizen Competence 100  A Paradox: Citizen Competence and Partisan Reputation 104  Coda 109      Appendix A: A Limit on the Influence of the Policy Reputations of Parties 110  Introduction 110  Reputations as Encoded Information 114  The Stickiness of Preferences 116  Can Parties Induce Polarization Spikes? 119  Replication 125  Precis 130  Appendix B Study Descriptions: General Description of Methodology 133      References 137  Index 143","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403790164311,"sku":"9780691154145","price":78.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691154145.jpg?v=1730484550","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-reputational-premium-9780691154145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}