Partisan Families

Index

Achen, Christopher, xvi, 6–7, 29–30, 33, 46, 92

Acock, Alan, 110

Administrative Behavior (Simon), 19

Age cohorts (see also partisan constancy, partisan preference, partisan support, turnout)

   Defined, 126

   Indicators in BHPS, 57, 62

   Indicators in GSOEP, 53, 56

Agent-based models, 3

Aggregate (macro) analysis of partisanship, xvii, xxvi, 16, 24, 27, 34

Alford, C. Fred, 3, 29

Allen, Woody, 21

American National Election Surveys (ANES), 12, 20

American Voter, The (Campbell, Converse, Miller, Stokes), 12, 14, 17, 19, 22–5, 27

Andersen, Robert, xxvii

Anderson, Christopher, xxvii, 28, 56, 125

Anen, Cedric, xv

Aquinas, Thomas, 10–11

Aristotle, 1, 9–10, 71, 80, 159

Aron, Art, 28

Aron, Elaine, 28

Arrow, Kenneth, 4, 29

Associative (or assortative) mating, 69, 71, 73, 80

Aumann, Robert, xvii, 7, 148

Axelrod, Robert, 2–3, 29

Baker, Kendall, 91

Bannon, Declan, 32, 150–1

Bantle, Christian, 92

Barbee, Anita, 2, 29

Barker, Ernest, 1, 9

Baron-Cohen, Simon, xv

Bartle, John, xxv

Bean, Clive, 72

Beck, Paul Allen, xvi, 28, 70, 91, 95, 127, 129, 153

Becker, Gary, 69

Behavior Revolution, in political science, 12–15, 17, 28, 148, 151, 158

Bengtson, Vern, 110

Berelson, Bernard, xv, 13–16, 150

Bergmann, Knut, 150

Berns, Gregory, xv, 3

Beyer, Mary Alice, 85

BHPS, see British Household Panel Survey

Bianchi, Suzanne, 144

Bible, The (see also Genesis, Proverbs, Psalms), 9–11, 29

Bion, W. R., 3, 29

Birds of a Feather Flock Together, principle (see also associative mating), 10, 80

Blair, Tony, xxvi, 125

Blais, André, xvii, xxv

Blomberg, Goran, 81, 126

Bolster, Anne, xxvii, 56, 125

Bottomore, T. B., 11

Boudon, Raymond, 4, 8

Bounded partisanship, xviii, xxvii, 33, 40, 45–7, 68, 72–3, 83, 91, 98, 102, 122–3, 139, 142, 145–55, 157, 159

Bounded rationality, xvii, 1, 4–5, 27, 29–30

Brady, Henry, 38

British Election Studies (BES), xxv, 20

British elections, 150–1

   1992, 37, 97, 126

   1997, 37, 97, 125–6, 131, 153

   2001, 97, 100, 125–6, 131

British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)

   Descriptive information, xx, xxiv–xxvii

   Limitations of, xx

   Strengths of, xx, xxv

Brody, Richard, 8

Brower, Aaron, 29

Brynin, Malcolm, 56, 124

Burgess, Simon, xxvii, 56, 125

Bürklin, Wilhelm, 47

Burns, Nancy, 28, 72

Butler, David, 124

Caballero, C., xxii, 47

Camerer, Colin, xv

Campbell, Angus, 12–14, 17, 22–4, 27, 29–30, 33, 159

Carlo Cattaneo Institute, 155

Cartwright, Dorwin, 17

Caughlin, John, 89

Children (see also fathers, mothers)

   And partisan constancy, 98

   And partisan preference (choice), 105–9

   And party support, 91, 95–7, 100, 102, 105–6, 108, 120

   And political interest, 105–107, 110, 138, 145

   And vote for Conservatives, 135–6

   And vote for Labour, 131–4

   Defined, 92, 94, 111, 130

   Influence on father, 120–1, 131–8

   Influence on mother, 119–21, 123, 131–8

Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), Germany

   Constancy of preference (choice) for, 43, 65, 98

   Preference (choice) for, 45, 55–6, 75, 116

   Preference agreement among couples, 80, 84–5

   Preference agreement among family members, 100–1, 119

Christoph, Bernhard, xxi, 43

Church of England, Anglican (see also Religious Identity), 74

Cialdini, Robert, 2

Cognitive dissonance (see also Festinger, Leon), 17, 18

Coile, Courtney, 89

Collins, W. Andrew, 92

Coltrane, Scott, 144

Columbia School of Electoral Sociology (see also Partisanship, theories of), xv, 13–14, 17, 31, 127

Columnar report, 41, 44–5, 82

Commentary on the Nicomechean Ethics (Aquinas), 11

Conover, Pamela, 71

Conservative Party, Britain

   Constancy of preference (choice) for, 43, 65, 99

   Preference (choice) for, 44, 57, 61, 77, 106, 116

   Preference agreement among couples, 80, 86–7

   Preference agreement among family members, 101

   Voting for, 127, 135, 136

Converse, Philip, 22, 24, 30, 36, 46, 96

Cooke, Lynn, 144, 154

Couples (see also households, husbands, wives)

   And partisan agreement, 80–1, 83–5, 87

   And religion, 81, 83, 86

   And social class, 81, 83, 86

   Reciprocal political influence, 76–7, 110, 116, 119

Crewe, Ivor, 71, 146

Cross-Partisanship (see also partisan switching), 91

Cunningham, Michael, 2, 28

Dalton, Madeline, 92

Dalton, Russell, 35–6, 47, 98

Dasović, Josip, xvi, 3, 71

Davies, James, xvi

Day, Neil, 38

De Graaf, Nan Dirk, xvi, 71

Decision Theory, 27–8

Demonstrations, political, 40

Dennis, Jack, 91

Denver, David, 150

Determinism, social, 14–15, 20, 90

Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), xxi

Diamond, Gregory, 146

Discussion, political, xxiii, 8, 12–13, 28, 71–72, 89, 139, 142, 144, 151

   In households, 72, 142

   In social networks, 3, 20, 27–8, 30, 129

   Spouses as discussion partners, 139

Dogan, Mattei, xvi, 71

Donoghue, Freda, 70

Douglas, Mary, 1–3, 29

Downs, Anthony, 8, 20, 25–7, 29–30, 146, 148

Drowned and the Saved, The (Levi), xv

Duck, Steve, 29

Durkheim, Émile, 11, 17

Duverger, Maurice, 151

Dyadic relations, xvi, xxvii, 21, 27, 88, 94, 116, 130–1, 143

East Germany, former German Democratic Republic (GDR), xxi, xxiv, xxviii, 152

Easton, David, 91

Economic concerns (problems), 52, 54

   And Partisan Preference (choice), 56

   Indicator in BHPS, 57

   Indicator in GSOEP, 51

Economic Theory of Democracy, An (Downs), 26, 31

Economy and Society (Weber), xv

Education level, xxiii, xxv, 24, 50, 57, 126, 140, 161

   And partisan preference (choice), 56, 57

   And partisan support, 55, 57

   Indicators in GSOEP, 50

Electoral campaigns (mobilization), 125, 148, 150, 151

   Calculations of party leaders, 35, 142–3, 148–9, 151, 153–4, 159

   Segmenting the political market, 154

   Target groups, 150

Electoral choice (voting), xvii, xix–xxii, xxv, xxvii, xxviii, 5, 7–8, 12, 14–16, 19–22, 26–27, 29, 31, 45, 71, 122–8, 130–3, 135–6, 138–43, 146, 148–52, 154–8

   In Britain, 124

   Studies of, 12

Electoral Sociology (see also Columbia School of Electoral Sociology), xv, 14

Elmira, New York, Election Study (1940), 14, 16, 22, 28

Elster, Jan, 5

Endogeneity, xxvii, 50, 74

   Fallacy of, 49

Erie County, Ohio, election study (1948), 14, 22, 28

Erikson, Robert, xxvii, 34, 56, 125

Eulau, Heinz, 13–14, 21, 159

European Commission, 144

European Union (EU), xxiv, 152

Evans, Geoffrey, xxiii, xxvii, 47

Events, exogenous

   Euro replaces mark, xxiv, 153

   German reunification, xviii, xxi, xxiv, xxvi, 36, 38, 40, 153

   Government change, Britain, xviii, xxvi

   Government change, Germany, xxiv

Falter, J., xxii, 47

Families, see couples, households

Farrell, David, 150

Fathers, political influence on children, 91, 111, 119–21, 123, 130–1, 138

Favreault, Melissa, 89

Festinger, Leon, 13, 17–18, 22, 25

Field theory, 17

Finkel, Steven, xvi, 150

Fiorina, Morris, 30, 33

Fisher, Justin, 150

Fisher, Kimberly, 144

Fitzgerald, Jennifer, xvi, 3, 71

Forza Italia (Italy), 155

Fowler, James, 8, 29, 31, 127

Franklin, Mark, 47

Free Democratic Party (FDP), Germany, xxii, 45

Freud, Sigmund, 3, 29

Friends and political discussion, 8–11, 16, 30, 38, 72, 89, 123, 144

Funnel of causality (see also American Voter, The), 17, 22

Furstenberg, Frank, Jr., 144

Gaudet, Hazel, xv, 14, 15

Gauthier, Anne, 144

Gazzaniga, Michael, 18

Gender, see husbands, wives

Genesis, book of (The Bible), 1, 71

German elections, 36, 96, 150–1

German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP)

   Descriptive information, xx, xxi–xxiv

   Limitations of, xx

   Strengths of, xx, xxiii, xxvi

Gershuny, Jonathan, 144

Gigerenzer, Gerd, 4, 29

Gimpel, James, 28, 30

Glaser, William, xvi, 71–2

Gluchowski, P. M., 47

Goldthorpe, John, xxiii, 47, 128

Goldthorpe measures, see occupation

Gonzalez, Richard, 21

Granovetter, Mark, 29

Gray, Mark, 126

Greek wisdom, 9, 11, 29

Green, Donald, xxii, 42

Green parties, xxii, 45, 95

Greene, Steven, 129

Greene, W. H., 164

Greenstein, Fred, 91

Griffin, Dale, 21

GSOEP, see German Socio-economic Panel Study

Guide of the Perplexed, The (Maimonides), 10

Gutman, David, 3

Haider, Lailer, 154

Haisken-DeNew, John, 92

Hands, Gordon, 150

Happiness, see well-being

Haslam, S. Alexander, 29

Hays, Bernadette, 72

Health (see also well-being), xvi, xx, 89, 124, 127

Heath, Anthony, xvi, 47, 71

Heath, Chip, 29

Heckman Probit Selection model, xix, xxviii, 48, 50–2, 54, 56, 58–60, 63, 65, 69, 101, 103–4, 107–8, 124–5, 128–9, 163, 165

   Described, 48, 163

Heckman, James, 111, 164–5

Heineman, Elizabeth, 154

Hendrick, Clyde, 29

Hendrick, Susan, 29

Henig, Simon, 150

Hernes, Gunnar, 5

Hess, Robert, 91

Heuristics, 4–5, 8, 29, 123

Hobbes, Thomas, 16

Holbrook, Thomas, 150

Holt, Robert, 150

Holzhacker, Ronald, 153

Homer, 10

Homophily, marital, see associative mating

Homo politicus, 26

Household income, 38, 50, 52–5, 58–61, 101, 103–4, 107–8

Households

   And partisan agreement, 80–1, 84–6, 92

   And reciprocal influence, 76–7, 116, 119–20, 131, 138

   And religion, 86, 92

   And social class, 86

   Defined, xvi, xx, 111

   Heads of, xxi, 46, 49, 57–69, 110, 123, 146, 157

   Samples, xxi, 94, 97, 111, 130

Houts, Robert, 89

Huckfeldt, Robert, xv, 3, 8, 28–9, 31, 70, 71, 81, 85

Huddy, Leonie, 25

Husbands (see also couples, fathers, households, wives)

   Influence on wives, 73–80, 110–122 130–132, 135–36 138

Huston, Ted, 89

Hyman, Herbert, 91

Ickes, William, 29

Iliad, The (Homer), 10, 71

Immigrants, xxi, 152–3

Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of Essex), xxiv, 161

Instrumental Variable Probit Model, xix, 74, 130, 163

Instrumental variables (see also Linear Probability Model), xix, 28, 49, 74, 116, 124, 130, 131, 138, 163–4

Interdependence

   Of group members, 17, 23

   Of observations in data, xx

Interpersonal interaction, 13, 23

   Frequency of, xxiii, 1, 6–8, 12, 93, 138, 143, 145, 159

Israel, 101

Italy, 143, 155

Iversen, Torben, 84

Jaros, Dean, 91

Jennings, M. Kent, xvi, 3, 28, 30, 70, 72, 85, 91, 95

Jervis, Robert, 25

Joesch, Jutta, 144

Johnson, Paul, 3, 28–9

Johnson, Richard, 89

Johnston, Ron, xxvii, 20, 28, 30, 56, 71, 125, 128, 141, 154

Jones, Bryan, 3, 4, 29

Jones, Kelvyn, xxvii, 56, 125

Kaase, Max, 38

Kaplan, Norman, 23

Katz, Elihu, 16, 26–8, 71

Katznelson, Ira, 11

Kenny, Christopher, xv, 70

Key, V. O., 13–14, 17, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 148, 159

Kiewiet, Donald, 30, 33

Kilts, Clinton, 3

King-Cassas, Brooks, xv, 3

Kingston, Paul William, xvi

Knack, Stephen, 127

Knickmeyer, Rebecca, xv

Kohl, Helmut, xxiv

Kohler, Ulrich, 36, 45, 47

Kotler-Berkowitz, Laurence, xvi, 3, 20, 28, 30, 47, 70–2, 141

Kroh, Martin, xxi, 95, 152

Labour Party, Britain

   Constancy of preference (choice) for, 43, 65, 99

   Preference (choice) for, 44, 59, 77, 106, 110, 116

Labour Party, Britain (cont.)

   Preference agreement among couples, 80, 86–7

   Preference agreement among family members, 101, 119

   Voting for, 127, 131, 133

Laland, Kevin, 5

Lane, Robert, 12

Lau, Richard, 25

Laursen, Brett, 92

Lay, J. Celeste, 28, 30

Lazarsfeld, Paul, xv, 13–17, 20, 24–5, 27–8, 31, 150

Learning, social, xvii, 3–6, 16

LeBeouf, Robyn, 29

Lemann, Nicholas, 150

Lerner, Daniel, 5

Lerner, Jennifer, 5

Levi, Primo, xv

Leviathan (Hobbes), 16

Levine, Jeffrey, 28, 30

Lewin, Kurt, 13, 17–18, 23, 25, 27

Liberal Democratic Party, Britain, xxii, xxv, 95, 100, 141, 148

Lichbach, Mark, 3

Life cycle effects (see also age cohorts), 50

Life-space (see also Lewin), 18

Like to like, principle (see also associative mating), 2, 10, 73, 80

Lin, Ann Chih, 30

Linear Probability Model

   Described, xix

   Instrumental variables, 49, 116, 124, 131

Listhaug, Olla, 146

Local Participation Study (UK), 72, 139, 140

Local politics

   Interest in, 38, 139–40

   Participation in, 38, 139, 152

Logic, social, see bounded partisanship

Logistic Regression Model (Logit Model), 48, 74, 84, 130, 139, 165

   Ordered Logit Model, 139

Lonely Crowd, The (Riesman), 17

Long, Scott J., 164

Lupia, Arthur, 8

MacAllister, Ian, 150

Macdonald, Stuart Elaine, 146

Mackie, Tom, 47

MacKuen, Michael, 34

Macurdy, Thomas, 111, 165

Macy, Michael, 2

Maimonides, 10

Major, John, 125

Manski, Charles, 49

March, James, xvi, 29, 71–2

Marketing, consumer or electoral, 32, 92, 150

Markman, Arthur, 32

Marx, Karl, 1, 11, 17

McCarty, Craig, 29

McClurg, Scott, 150

McCubbins, Matthew, 8

McPhee, William, xv, 14–16, 150

Mebane, Walter, 29, 31

Mechanisms, social, xviii, 2, 4–5, 12, 15, 18–19, 21, 29, 142, 158

Media, the, 8, 142, 149

Medin, Douglas, 32

Meehl, Paul, 2, 148

Menand, Louis, 123–4

Mendes, Silvia, xxvii, 56, 125

Merton, Robert K., 13, 16–17, 23, 25, 71

Michigan School of Electoral Studies (see also partisanship, theories of), 12–13, 17–25, 27–30, 33, 46

Middle class (see also social class), 51, 74, 87

   Subjective identity, 127

Miller, Harvey, 2

Miller, Robert, 70

Miller, Warren, 13, 14, 22–4, 27, 29–30, 33, 159

Mimetism, 11

Mishneh Torah, 10

Mondak, Jeffrey, 127

Montague, P. Read, xv

Morganbesser, Sidney, xvii

MORI Research Report, 89

Mosca, Gaetano, 11, 17

Mothers, political influence on children, 91, 111, 119–21, 130–38, 143–45

Moyser, George, 38

Müller, Wilhelm, 47

Mutz, Diana, 8, 127

National elections (see also German elections, British elections), xviii, xxii, xxiv, xxvi, 36, 50–1, 55, 57, 96, 126, 130–1, 151

National Opinion Research Center (NORC), 22

Negative partisanship (see also partisanship), 146

Neighborhood

   As social context, 27–8, 30

   Attachment to, 140

   Partisan support in, 50, 83

Neighbors

   Frequency of interaction with,

   Political discussion with, 71, 72, 139, 144

   Political preferences of, xv, 10, 14, 34, 83, 123

Newcomb, Theodore, 22

Newlywed couples (see also couples), 83, 85

Ney, Steven, 1–3, 29

Nicomechean Ethics (Aristotle), 10, 71

Niemi, Richard, xvi, 28, 91, 95

No party, support for (see also partisan support), xix, 6, 30, 32–3, 37, 40–5, 47–8, 73, 80–1, 83, 91, 95, 98–101, 103–6, 120–1, 124, 146, 147, 149, 152–5, 157, 163

Norms, social, 2–4, 13, 25

Norpoth, Helmut, xxii, 47, 50

Northern Ireland, 70, 144

Nye, Judith, 29

Occupation, xxiii, 24, 74–6

   And partisan preference (choice), 56, 76

   And partisan support, 55

   Goldthorpe measures, xxiii, xxv, 47, 52, 54, 58, 60, 74, 128, 161

   Indicator in BHPS, xxv, 74

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxiii, 74, 116

Olson, Mancur, Jr., 3

Onkeles, Targum, 1, 159

Opinion diversity in social networks (see also couples, households), 29

Opposites attract, principle, 2, 10

Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Regression Model, 62, 111, 130

Oygard, Lisbet,

Oyserman, Daphna, 29

Packer, Martin, 29

Page, Benjamin, 34

Pagnoni, Giuseppe, 3

Palmquist, Bradley, xxii, 24, 30, 33, 41, 42

Pander, Rohini, 154

Parents, political influence on children (see also mothers, fathers), 101–2, 105–6, 108, 131, 133, 135

Parry, Geraint, 38

Partisan constancy (stability of partisan preference), xviii, xix, xxi, xxvi–xxviii, 32, 33, 36, 40–6, 48, 49, 62–8, 72, 73, 116, 123–4, 127–38, 141, 157, 158

   And vote choice, 46

   Defined, 32, 124

Partisan preference (choice), xvi, xxiii, xxv, xxviii, 34–7, 45, 47–68, 72, 80, 89, 94–122, 123, 143, 145, 148, 152, 156, 163

   Defined, xvii, 32

   Indicator in BHPS, xxv

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxii

Partisan support (for any party)

   Defined, xvi, 32

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxii

   Indicator in BHPS, xxv, 156

   (see also no party)

Partisan switching (see also partisan constancy), xviii, xxvi, xxvii, 42, 44–5, 48, 98, 150

Partisanship

   Aggregate level, 44–5, 100

   National, 51, 126, 131

   Regional, xxiv, xxv, 51, 57, 63, 65, 83, 85, 90, 102, 110, 126, 127, 131

   Secular decline of, xviii, xxvi, 55, 59, 97, 102, 153

   Theories of, xv, xviii, 9, 12–28, 30–1, 33, 46, 127

   (see also partisan constancy, partisan preference, partisan support, bounded partisanship)

Party leaders, calculations of, 35, 142–3, 148–9, 151, 153–4, 159

Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), Germany, xxii, xxviii, 152

Paskeviciute, Aida, 28

Pattie, Charles, 20, 28, 30, 38, 71, 128, 141, 154

People’s Choice, How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign, The (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, Gaudet), 27

People’s Choice, The (Key and Munger), 14–15, 25

Personal Influence (Katz, Lazarsfeld), 16, 26–27, 71

Petersson, Olof, 81, 126

Pienta, Amy, 89

Plassner, Fritz, 150

Poisson Model, 164

Political interest, xvi, xxiv, xxv, xxvii, 8, 35, 38–40, 46, 50, 53, 57, 68, 73–9, 83–5, 87, 89–92, 101–2, 105, 107, 112–18, 124, 126, 131, 145, 149, 158, 161–2

   And partisan agreement, 73, 80, 83, 85

   And partisan constancy, 9, 65

   And partisan preference (choice), 9, 62, 72, 74, 77–8, 89, 116

   And partisan support, 9, 53, 74, 107, 110

   And political influence, xvi, xxiii, 91, 116, 120, 138, 145

   And turnout, 124

Political parties, see CDU/CSU, Conservative Party, Labour Party, SPD

Politics, The (Aristotle), 1

Polychoric correlation, 41, 116, 131

Powdthavee, Nattavudh, xvi, 89

Primary groups, see couples, households

Propinquity, principle, 2, 141

Propper, Carol, xxvii, 56, 125

Proverbs, book of (The Bible), 10

Psalms, book of (The Bible), 10

Public Opinion and American Democracy (Key), 26

Quartz, Steven, xv

Rabinowitz, George, 146

Ragatt, Peter, xv

Rallings, Collin, 72, 139

Rational choice theory, xvii, 3, 6, 20, 26, 27, 29–30, 33, 148

   And partisanship (see also partisanship, theories of), 20

   Limitations of, 19, 29

   (see also bounded rationality, social logic of politics)

Recipracal political influence, see coupies, households

Reference Group Theory and Voting Behavior (Kaplan), 23

Relationships, analytical (see also determinism)

   Determined vs. probabilistic, xvi, 2, 31, 69, 156

Relationships, social

   As social contexts (see also discussion, social circles), xv, xvi, xxi, 7, 138

   Dyadic, xvi, 21, 27, 74, 81, 83, 85, 88, 94, 116, 143

Religious attendance, 51, 75–6, 78–9, 84–5, 90, 92

   And partisan agreement, 84–8

   And partisan constancy, 63–6

   And partisan preference (choice), 51–5, 57–61, 64–7, 74–80, 110

   And partisan support, 51–5, 57–61

   Indicator in BHPS, xxv, 65, 74, 162

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxiii, 65, 74, 162

Religious identification, 51–55, 58–61, 63, 73–6, 78–9, 81, 84–7, 92–3, 102, 104, 107–8, 116, 126–9, 131, 161–2

   And partisan agreement, 80, 83, 84–8

   And partisan constancy, 63–6

   And partisan preference (choice), 51–5, 57–61, 64–7, 74–80, 110

   And partisan support, 51–5, 57–61, 110

   Indicator in BHPS, xxv, 51, 65, 74, 162

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxiii, 65, 74

Responsible Electorate, The (Key), 25

Rho statistic, 53, 55, 59, 61, 103–4, 107–8, 127–9, 163

Richardson, Bradley, 47

Riesman, David, 17

Riker, William, 2, 148

Rilling, James, 3

Robinson, John, 144

Robinson, W. S., 41

Rosenbluth, Frances, 84

Rove, Karl, 150

Rubel, Maximilien, 11

Sacerdote, Bruce, 49

Sanders, David, 56, 124

Sapiro, Virginia, 91

Sargent, James, 92

Saris, Willem, 46

Sarker, Rebecca, xxvii, 56, 125

Särlvick, Bo, 146

Sartori, Anne, 50

Sartori, Giovanni, 35

Sayer, Liana, 144

Scandinavia, 155

Schachter, Stanley, 18

Scheucher, Christian, 150

Schickler, Eric, xxii, 24, 30, 33, 41, 42

Schlozman, Kay, 28, 38, 72

Schmitt, H., 36, 47

Schmitt, K., 47

Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, xxi, 8, 36, 43, 70, 150, 153

Schoen, H., xxii, 47

Schrott, Peter, 150

Scottish National Party (SNP), xxii, xxv, 95

Searing, Donald, 71

Sears, David O., 25

Selb, Peter, 95

Selection bias, 48, 163

Selten, Reinhard, 4, 29

Senft, Christian, 150

Seyd, Patrick, 38, 150

Shafir, Eldar, 29

Shanks, J. Merrill, 24, 30, 33

Shapiro, Robert, 34

Shils, Edward, 13, 17

Shively, W. Phillips, 30, 33

Silk, Jennifer, 92, 110

Simmel, Georg, 3, 11, 16–18

Simon, Herbert, 4, 18–19, 29, 158

Sinnott, Richard, 47

Small world studies (see also Fowler), 29

Smeeding, Timothy, 144

Smetana, Judith, 94, 110

Smith, Alison, 144

Sniderman, Paul, 8, 46, 151

Snyder, James, 111, 165

Social Capital Benchmark Study USA, (2000), 28

Social circles

   As social contexts, 19–20, 22, 25–6, 31, 71–2, 139, 144

   Immediate (intimate), xxv–xxvii, 8, 12, 17, 19–20, 22, 25–6, 31, 56, 69, 71, 78, 80, 89, 124–5, 127, 135, 139, 141, 142, 146, 151–4, 159

Social class, subjective identification

   Agreement among family members, 92–3

   Agreement between household partners, 81, 83

   And partisan constancy, 66–8

   And partisan preference (choice), 57–62, 84–7, 106, 110

   And partisan support, 57–61

   And vote choice, Britain, 127–9, 131–5

   Indicator in BHPS, 127

   (see also occupation)

Social Democratic Party (SPD), Germany

   Partisan constancy, 64–5, 67, 98–9

   Preference (choice) for, 44, 51–3, 55–6, 75–7, 102–3, 105–6, 116, 121

   Preference agreement among couples, 80–5

   Preference agreement among family members, 101, 112–13, 116, 119

   Social intimates, see couples, households

Social logic of bounded partisanship, xviii, xix, xxiii, xxvii, xxviii, 9, 27, 30, 33, 91, 123, 139, 141, 147, 151–4, 159

Social logic of politics, xviii–xx, xxviii, 9, 11–21, 23, 25–8, 30, 46, 48, 138, 142

   And rational choice theory, 29, 30

Social networks, xvi, 13, 29, 85, 127

Social organizations, membership in, 6, 38, 126

Social ties, 6

Sometimes true theories, see mechanisms

Spiess, Katharina, 144

Spiess, M., xxi

Spouses, see couples, households, husbands, wives

Sprague, John, xv, 3, 8, 28–9, 31, 70, 71, 81, 85

Steinberg, Laurence, 92, 110

Stimson, James, 34

Stoker, Laura, xvi, 3, 28, 30, 70, 72, 85

Stokes, Donald, 12–14, 22–4, 27, 29, 124, 159

Straits, Bruce, xv, 127

Swaine, Lucas, 20, 71, 72

Sweden, 81, 101, 126, 155

Taber, Charles, 34

Taylor, Kevin, xv

Tedin, Kent, xvi, 91

Tetlock, Philip, 5, 8

Thrasher, Michael, 72, 139

Time-series data, xx, 84

Tinsley, Howard, 41

Tobler, 2

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 11, 17

Tomlin, Damon, xv

Torney, Judith, 91

Trade union membership, 5, 51, 63, 74–6, 78–9, 84–5, 87, 90, 101–2, 106, 112–18, 127–8, 131–2, 136, 162–3

   And partisan agreement, 83–8

   And partisan constancy, 63–6

   And partisan preference (choice), 5, 51–5, 57–61, 64–7, 74–80

   And partisan support, 51–5, 57–61

   And vote choice, Britain, 127–132

   Indicator in BHPS, xxv, 75, 162

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxiii, 50, 51, 75, 162

Treatise on Happiness (Aquinas), 11

Trust, social, xxiii, 2, 5, 8, 25, 89, 91, 158, 159

   And social learning, 5, 8, 15, 157, 159

   In households, xxiii, 7, 8, 89, 91, 93, 111, 143, 145, 158, 159

Turner, John, 29, 150

Turner, Ralph, 22

Turnout, electoral, xix, xxv–xxviii, 8, 29, 124–7, 140–1, 150–1, 156–8

   Effects of living alone on, xvi, 51, 83, 126, 135, 140–1

Tverdova, Yuliya, xxvii, 56, 125

Tversky, Amos, 29

Two-Stage Instrumental Probit Model, 111, 165–6

Ullmann-Margalit, Edna, xvii

United States, xxii, xxv, 70, 144, 150, 155

Utility maximization, see rational choice theory

Valen, Henry, 47

Van Deth, Jan, 38

Ventura, Raphael, xvi, 95, 101

Verba, Sidney, 13, 17, 28, 38, 72

Voluntary activities

   Indicator in BHPS, 163

   Indicator in GSOEP, xxiii, 50, 162

Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 47

Voting, see turnout, electoral choice

Walsh, Katherine Cramer, 71

Weakliem, David, 47

Weber, Max, xv, 11, 16–18

Weick, Stefan, 36, 43

Weiss, David, 41

Well-being, subjective (see also turnout), 126, 128, 129

Welsh Nationalist Party (Plaid Cymru), Britain, xxii, xxv, 95

Westholm, Anders, 81, 95, 101, 126

Whitehurst, Robert, 85

Whiteley, Paul, 150

Wickert, Wolfram, 150

Wielhouwer, Peter, 150

Wilson, Sven, xvi

Winkelmann, Rainer, 63, 164

Wives (see also couples, households, husbands, mothers)

   Centrality in families, 116, 119, 120–1, 130, 135, 138, 143–5, 153

   Influence on husbands, 73–80, 110–22, 130–2, 135, 137

Wooldridge, Jeffrey, 48, 50, 164

Working class (see also occupation, social class), 74, 86–7, 162

   Subjective identity, 127

Workmates and political discussion, 8, 14, 71, 72, 144

World Values Survey (WVS), 38–9

Young person, see children

Zeh, Thorsten, 3

Zelle, Carsten, xxii, 36

Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial model (ZINB), 63, 65, 163–4

   And partisan constancy, 62

   Described, 164

Zuckerman, Alan S., xv, xvi, xxi, 3, 9, 11, 20, 28, 30, 70–2, 141, 152, 153

Zuckerman, Ezra, 71