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Murakami, Michael. "Ideological Proximity or Symbolic Politics? Explaining Polarization�s Effect on Voters� Candidate Evaluations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 20, 2006 <Not Available>. 2008-12-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p141175_index.html>

Murakami, M. H. , 2006-04-20 "Ideological Proximity or Symbolic Politics? Explaining Polarization�s Effect on Voters� Candidate Evaluations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2008-12-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p141175_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Classic spatial models predict that a voter will view candidates more favorably when they lie closer to that voter�s ideal point in ideological or issue space. As America�s political class polarizes into two distinct and homogenous political parties, these theories predict that most voters, who do not hold extreme preferences, should offer increasingly negative evaluations of Democratic and Republican candidates as they move away from the political center. I offer an alternative framework for thinking about how party polarization may be affecting candidate evaluations: polarization of the political class and changing party stereotypes have made party identification an increasingly potent predisposition for conditioning responses to partisan political symbols. Analysis of the distribution of voters� preferences as well as their perceptions and evaluations of Democratic and Republican presidential candidates over the past 30 years suggests that my proposed framework is more useful than spatial models for understanding how party polarization is affecting voters� attitudes towards the two parties� nominees.

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