Author's Keywords: social class identity, social identity, presidential elections, political parties	Convention All Academic Convention makes running your annual conference simple and cost effective. It is your online solution for abstract management, peer review, and scheduling for your annual meeting or convention. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: The Midwest Political Science Association URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
Citation: URL: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p141124_index.html Direct Link: HTML Code:

Walsh, Katherine. "The Effect of Social Class Identity on Presidential Vote Choice: The Role of Identity Stability and Political and Economic Context" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 20, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p141124_index.html>

Walsh, K. C. , 2006-04-20 "The Effect of Social Class Identity on Presidential Vote Choice: The Role of Identity Stability and Political and Economic Context" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p141124_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: There is a presumption in the political behavior literature that class identity does not matter much for political preferences in the United States. However, growing income inequality, recent attention to the connection between the working class and the Democratic Party, and recent work showing a connection between class identity and orientations to government make this conclusion suspect. This paper investigates the relationship between social class identity and presidential vote choices. It treats individual-level identity stability and the political and economic environment during a given campaign as important intervening variables. I use a two-generation longitudinal panel study to examine the relationship between identifying with the working or middle class and presidential vote preferences during the elections from 1968 to 1996, combined with indicators of the political and economic context. I find that social class identity is strongly related to presidential vote choice once controlling for objective indicators of class�but only in several elections, particularly the 1980 and 1992 races, and primarily for people with stable class identities over the life course. These results, combined with the contextual indicators, suggest that class identity is especially likely to exert an effect on vote choice when it is emphasized by the information environment of the campaign, when the state of the economy is poor, and when there is a widespread perception that the economy is in a slump.

Does Presidential Campaign Television Advertising Effect Vote Choice? An Aggregate Level Analysis of the 1996 and 2000 Presidential Television Campaigns

Effects of Social and Ideological Cleavages on Vote Choice in the Korean Presidential Election of December 19, 2007