Beyond Red and Blue: How Voters Connect Party Loyalty with Ideology

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Voters often conflate party identity with ideology, but this isn't always accurate.

Data & Methods

Survey Experiment
Mixed-methods Approach (Quantitative + Qualitative)
National Sample of Voters

Key Findings

Red states ≠ Republican ideology
Blue states ≠ Democratic ideology
Distinct ideological clusters emerge within parties

Why It Matters

Revises traditional understanding of partisan perception
Offers insights into descriptive representation debates
Illuminates the link between polarization and public opinion dynamics

Article card for article: What Goes With Red and Blue? Mapping Partisan and Ideological Associations in the Minds of Voters

What Goes With Red and Blue? Mapping Partisan and Ideological Associations in the Minds of Voters was authored by Stephen N. Goggin, John A. Henderson and Alexander G. Theodoridis. It was published by Springer in Pol. Behav. in 2020.