TY - BOOK ID - 77888751 TI - The Reputational Premium AU - Sniderman, Paul M., AU - Stiglitz, Edward H PY - 2012 SN - 1280494379 9786613589606 1400842557 9781400842551 9781280494376 9780691154145 0691154147 9780691154176 0691154171 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - Party affiliation. KW - Parties, Political KW - Party systems, Political KW - Political party systems KW - Political science KW - Divided government KW - Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) KW - Political conventions KW - Affiliation, Party KW - Political affiliation KW - Public opinion. KW - Membership KW - American party system. KW - American politics. KW - Democrats. KW - Republicans. KW - candidate positioning. KW - democratic experiment. KW - democratic politics. KW - elected representatives. KW - electoral punishment. KW - partisans. KW - party identification. KW - policy conviction. KW - policy positions. KW - policy preferences. KW - policy reputations. KW - policy-based voting. KW - political competence. KW - political landscape. KW - political parties. KW - political party. KW - programmatic partisanship. KW - programmatic party identifiers. KW - reputational premium. KW - spatial reasoning. KW - spatial voting. KW - supply-side theory. KW - voters. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888751 AB - The Reputational Premium presents a new 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 pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary American politics enables voters to make coherent policy choices. Standard approaches to the study of policy-based voting hold that voters choose based on the policy positions of the two candidates competing for their support. This study demonstrates that candidates can get a premium in support from the policy reputations of their parties. In particular, Paul Sniderman and Edward Stiglitz present a theory of how partisans take account of the parties' policy reputations as a function of the competing candidates' policy positions. A central implication of this theory of reputation-centered choices is that party identification gives candidates tremendous latitude in their policy positioning. Paradoxically, it is the party supporters who understand and are in synch with the ideological logic of the American party system who open the door to a polarized politics precisely by making the best-informed choices on offer. ER -