Party registration and party self-identification: Exploring the role of electoral institutions in attitudes and behaviors

Thornburg, Matthew P.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014.08.002

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“…The link between an individual’s party identification and his or her party registration is the strongest in states that requite voters to affiliate with a political party when registering to vote. Drawing on self-perception theory, Burden and Greene (2000) find that self-identified partisans are more likely to be found in states that require party registration, and Thornburg (2014), drawing on ANES panel data, finds that party self-identification is strongly related to party registration status. Indeed, as Finkel and Scarrow (1985) find, many individuals often conflate partisan identification with their party registration.…”

Section: Party Attachment and Party Switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, as Finkel and Scarrow (1985) find, many individuals often conflate partisan identification with their party registration. Further, party registration, as (Thornburg, 2014: 139) notes, “requires significant effort to alter,” as the official registration “anchors” partisanship. As such, the literature on the stability of partisan loyalties, which may be upended by cataclysmic events or contradict macro-partisan changes, likely underestimates the stickiness of official party registration.…”

Section: Party Attachment and Party Switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Riot in the party? Voter registrations in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 capitol insurrection

Loving

Smith

2022

Party Politics

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Following the 6 January 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, news outlets reported that registered Republicans were leaving the party in droves. Drawing on millions of individual-level voter registration records in Florida, we place post-riot party-switching in broader context. We investigate whether Republicans were more likely to experience greater out-migration after the riot, detail to which parties’ individuals switched their allegiances, use a difference-in-difference strategy to determine if the 2021 exodus was greater than 4 years earlier, and examine whether those who decamped from the GOP returned to the fold a year later. We find that registered voters who switched parties after the January 6th uprising were more likely to be white, middle-aged, high-propensity voters, and that Republicans were nearly four times more likely than Democrats to defect following the insurrection. We also find that the GOP defection rate after January 6th was nine times higher than during the same time period in 2017. However, we find that Republican registrants who switched parties post-riot did not migrate to the Democratic Party, but rather became independents, and that a year later, almost no Republicans (only 4.6%) who had defected returned to their GOP roots.

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Section: Party Attachment and Party Switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Party Attachment and Party Switchingmentioning

confidence: 99%