Abstract
The 1980 and 1982 American national election studies include a new series of questions about individual partisanship. It is possible to create a 5-point scale of party support/closeness from these questions. The new measure performs reasonably as regards its relationship to other measures of partisanship, to its own continuity over time, and to dependent behavior. There is also a new question on independence, but this is best treated as a separate item rather than being incorporated in the party support/closeness scale. The new measure also performs well in measuring strength of partisanship.
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Weisberg, H.F. A new scale of partisanship. Polit Behav 5, 363–376 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00987561
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00987561