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100	1		_aHETHERINGTON, Marc J _94785
245	1	0	_aResourgent mass partisanship : _bthe role of elite polarization
260			_c2001
520	3		_aFor the most part, scholars who study American political parties in the electorate continue to characterize them as weak and in decline. Parties on the elite level, however, have experienced a resurgence over the last two decades. Such a divergence between elite behavior and mass opinion is curious, given that most models of public opinion place the behavior of elites at their core. In fact, I find that parties in the electorate have experienced a noteworth resurgence over the last two decades. Greater partisan polarization in Congress has clarified the parties` ideological positions for ordinary Americans, which i turn has increased party importance and salience o the mass level. Although parties in the 1990s are not as central to Americans as they were in the 1950s, they are far more important today than in the 1970s and 1980s. The party decline thesis is in need of revision
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g95, 3, p. 619-632 _d, 2001 _w
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998			_a20020926 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20060515 _b1038^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c7443 _d7443
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