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Why it's unfair to tar all party activists with the same brush of extremism

Birkhead, Nathaniel A. and Hershey, Marjorie Randon (2017) Why it's unfair to tar all party activists with the same brush of extremism. USApp - American Politics and Policy Blog (30 Nov 2017). Website.

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Abstract

Party activists play an important role in contemporary US politics; they attend rallies, campaign, fundraise, vote, and donate money to candidates. But we should not think of party activists as one homogeneous group of like-minded people with extreme views write Nathaniel Birkhead and Marjorie Randon Hershey. In their analysis of political participation and ideology, they find that different forms of political activity ...

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information: © 2017 The Author(s)
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2017 17:02
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:14
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86096

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