Party Members in a Three-Party Election; Major-Party and Reform Activism in the 1996 American Presidential Election  

Oleh:

Stone, Walter J. ; Rapoport, Ronald B. ; Schneider, Monique B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Party Politics vol. 10 no. 4 (Jul. 2004), page 445–469.
Topik: party activism
Reform Party
third parties’ members
USA
Fulltext: 445PP104.pdf (136.78KB)

Isi artikel

The political parties in the United States do not have formal members as is common in most other Western democracies. We suggest directmail contributors are similar to party members in many respects. The 1996 presidential election offers an interesting opportunity for study because of the campaign run by Ross Perot and the newly formed Reform Party. We explore the sources of campaign activism in 1996 using surveys of national samples of contributors to all three parties. We find traditional left–right issues and evaluations of the party and the party’s nominee motivated major-party activism. Reform contributors, in contrast, were motivated by the issues Perot emphasized in his campaign, which were distinct from those that divide the Republican and Democratic parties. They were also influenced by their distrust of politics as usual, and their evaluation of Perot, rather than of their party. We also show that the Republican Party benefited in 2000 from Reform contributors’ mobilization, which suggests a connection between thirdparty decline and major-party change.

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