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Comment: The Issues in Issue Voting*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

John H. Kessel
John H. Kessel*
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Ohio State University
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American Political Science Review , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 1972 , pp. 459 - 465
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I should like to thank my colleagues Aage R. Clausen, C. Richard Hofstetter, and Theodore W. Meckstroth for very helpful reactions to an earlier draft of this comment.

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2 Field and Anderson, “Ideology in the 1964 Election;” Kovenock, Beardsley and Prothro, “Status, Party, Ideology, and Candidate Choice;” Natchez and Bupp, “Candidates, Issues and Voters;” Pierce, “Changing Role of Ideology;” and RePass, “Issue Salience and Party Choice.

3 Campbell, Angus, Converse, Philip E., Miller, Warren E., and Stokes, Donald E., The American Voter (New York: Wiley, 1960)Google Scholar.

4 Campbell et al., American Voter, chap. 8.

5 Campbell et al., American Voter, chap. 10.

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7 Natchez and Bupp, “Candidates, Issues and Voters.”

8 Hetrick, “Issues and Politics.”

9 Field and Anderson, “Ideology in the 1964 Election.”

10 Converse, Philip E., “The Concept of a Normal Vote,” in Elections and the Political Order, ed. Campbell, Angus, Converse, Philip E., Miller, Warren E., and Stokes, Donald E., (New York: Wiley, 1966), chap. 2Google Scholar.

11 Pierce, “Changing Role of Ideology.”

12 Boyd, “Voting Defection.”

13 RePass, “Issue Salience and Party Choice.”

14 Shanks, “Quality of Electoral Change.”

15 Boyd, “Normal Vote Analysis of 1968 Election.”

16 Stokes, “Dynamic Elements of Contests for Presidency.”

17 Field and Anderson, “Ideology in the 1964 Election.”

18 Pierce, “Changing Role of Ideology.”

19 On centrality, see Newcomb, Theodore, Turner, Ralph, and Converse, Philip E., Social Psychology (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965), pp. 141–145 Google ScholarPubMed; and Sperlich, Conflict and Harmony, chap. 6.

20 The spatial metaphor rests upon the definition of “nucleus” as “a central point, group, or mass about which a gathering, concentration or accretion takes place” and “satellite” as “something attendant, subordinate or dependent.” I want to avoid the concept of “system” in discussing the cognitive structure of the average voter. It now appears there is too much inconsistency between the clusters, and too little ability to predict how a change in one cluster will affect other clusters, to justify the use of the system concept.

21 Price, Hugh Douglas, “Micro- and Macro-politics: Notes on Research Strategy” in Political Research and Political Theory, ed. Garceau, Oliver (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), p. 121 Google Scholar.

22 Boyd, , “Voting Defection,” p. 510 Google Scholar.

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