The partisan sort
Subtitle: how liberals became Democrats and conservatives became Republicans
By: Matthew Levendusky.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780226473642; 9780226473659
Subjects: Political parties -- United States; Voting research -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Description: 'The Partisan Sort' offers a compelling explanation of why American voters increasingly align themselves with the 'correct' political party - liberals with Democrats and conservatives with Republicans - and fruitfully draws out the potential implications of this development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The transformation of the American electorate; title: Why voters sort; title: Have voters sorted?; title: Testing competing explanations for sorting; title: Untangling the causes of sorting; title: How voters sort; title: The impact of the sorted.