- •Party Polarization and "Conflict Extension" in the American Electorate
- •Existing Views on the Mass Response to Elite Partisan Change
- •Conflict Extension and the Limited Mass Response to Elite Issue Convergence and Polarization
- •Table 1 Awareness of the Republican Party Being More Conservative than the Democratic Party on Specific Issues, 1972-2000 (in percentages)
- •Table 2 Confirmatory Factor Analyses of Issue Attitudes, 1972 and 2000a
- •Testing the Explanation for Mass Conflict Extension
- •Table 3 Factor Analysis by Strength of Party Identification, 1988-2000: Loadings of the Same 11 Issues on a Single Factor and Factor Correlations from Three-Factor Models of the Same Issues
- •Conclusion
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