scholarly journals The Myth of the Independent Voter, California Style

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward L Lascher ◽  
John L Korey
Keyword(s):  
Independent Voter

Party Membership in the United States, II

1942 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarence A. Berdahl
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Independent Voter ◽  
Selection Of

In spite of the recent loosening of the membership or affiliation requirements in Illinois and a few other states, the general tendency throughout the development of party regulation has been toward greater strictness in this respect, toward more effective protection of the party organization against the independent voter with a careless party conscience. This is indicated, in the first place, by the turn toward an official definition and administration of these membership tests. That is, the parties are no longer left free to determine their own membership rules as they please, but these rules are to an increasing extent prescribed by state law and administered by state officials. Secondly, the tests of party membership have become, on the whole, more complex and more comprehensive, and therefore more difficult to evade—the closed primary has become more and more tightly closed. Thirdly, there has been a drift from the challenge to the enrollment or registration system, and, in general, legislation or other official action which requires greater care by the voter and the candidate in the selection of his party, and which imposes greater difficulty in changing his party affiliation.

The Myth of the Independent Voter Revisited

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Magleby ◽  
Candice J. Nelson ◽  
Mark C. Westlye
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
First Year ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Independent Voter ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
American Party ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

This chapter revisits the findings and conclusions reached in The Myth of the Independent Voter (1992), which shows independents in the electorate from 1952 (the first year in which the ANES asked respondents for their party identification) through 1988. Furthermore, the chapter addresses, where needed, some of the claims and concerns that still circulate regarding the large bloc of independents. It discusses the increase in the number of citizens identifying as independent, a phenomenon which began in the 1960s and is now considered a potential threat to the current American party system, which has been seen as a fundamental, long-term influence on Americans' political attitudes and behavior, and as the single most important predictor of the vote.

X. The Myth of the Independent Voter Revisited

2011 ◽  
pp. 238-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Magleby ◽  
Candice J. Nelson ◽  
Mark C. Westlye
Keyword(s):  
Independent Voter

The independent voter

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Economic Basis ◽  
Independent Voter ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of this chapter is to provide an insight into the make-up of the independent voter. Four features of the independent vote are examined in this chapter. The first concerns the socio-economic basis to the independent vote, the second feature examined is the extent to which support for independents is a personalistic and localistic vote, the third concerns party detachment, while the fourth feature examined is the protest element of the independent vote. These features feed back to the central thesis of this study that there are factors at play in Ireland that are permissive of independents. An important finding is that a vote for independents is not a completely irrational, aberrant vote. The presence of some consistent features suggests there is a logical structure to the independent vote. Under certain permissive conditions, such as a localistic and personalistic political culture, and a declining attachment to political parties, support for independents is greater.

Inside the Mind of an Independent Voter in America

2016 ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Samara Klar ◽  
Yanna Krupnikov
Keyword(s):  
Independent Voter ◽  
The Mind
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