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| Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Author Biography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Apartisan American | |
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| The Concept of Party Identification | |
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| The Implications of Partisan Dealignment | |
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| Plus �a Change, or Real Change? | |
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| Partisan Dealignment | |
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| The Two Sides of the Dealignment Debate | |
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| Two Views of Partisan Change | |
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| How to Measure Partisanship | |
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| The Growth of Independents | |
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| A Closer Look at Independents | |
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| Registering Their Independence | |
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| We Are Not Alone | |
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| A Changing Public | |
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| Can Partisans Go to Heaven? | |
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| Who Are the Independents? | |
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| Growing Up Independent | |
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| Cognitive Mobilization and Independents | |
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| Attitudes and Nonpartisanship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: Multivariate Analysis | |
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| COG-Partisans and Democratic Citizenship | |
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| Encouraging Democratic Citizenship | |
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| The Effects of Mobilization Patterns | |
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| Political Information Seeking | |
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| Political Knowledge | |
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| Enlightened Citizenship | |
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| Is It Just Politics? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Political Participation | |
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| Becoming Active in Politics | |
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| Mobilization in Elections | |
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| Voting | |
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| Campaign Activity | |
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| Participation beyond Elections | |
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| Direct Action | |
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| Protest Activity | |
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| Internet Activism | |
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| The Paths to Political Participation | |
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| Electoral Politics | |
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| Images of Parties and the Party System | |
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| The Salience of Political Parties | |
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| Cognitive-Partisan Groups and Party Salience | |
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| Party Likes and Dislikes | |
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| A Closer Look at Party Polarization | |
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| A Second Look at Polarization | |
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| Variations in Party Affect | |
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| Images of the Party System | |
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| Making Candidate Choices | |
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| Partisanship: The Baseline | |
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| Candidate Awareness | |
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| The Contents of Candidate Images | |
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| From Candidate Images to Preferences | |
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| Mobilization Patterns and Candidate Choice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: Predicting Candidate Preferences | |
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| Switchers, Splitters, and Late Deciders | |
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| Do Campaigns Matter? | |
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| Swing Voters | |
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| Another Close Look at Independents | |
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| Third-Party Voting | |
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| Split-Ticket Voting | |
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| A Changeable Electorate | |
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| The Comparative Perspective | |
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| Dealignment in Comparative Perspective | |
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| The Strength of Party Ties | |
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| Cognitive and Partisan Mobilization | |
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| Describing Cog-Partisans | |
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| Patterns of Political Action | |
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| Electoral Behavior | |
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| Cross-National Evidence of Dealignment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: National Trends in Party Identification | |
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| Electoral Politics Past and Future | |
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| The Evidence of Dealignment | |
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| The Implications of Dealignment | |
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| Electoral Politics | |
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| Political Engagement | |
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| Lessons for the Political Parties | |
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| Dealignment and Democracy | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |