Predicting Congressional Voting - Social Identification Trumps Party
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 09:40
in Psychology & Sociology
In America, where there is a two-party system, there are numerous opportunities to compromise or cross party lines politically, so looking at where someone falls on a conservative-liberal graph lines doesn't tell us much about how they will vote. Democrats receive over 90 percent of education union donations, for example, so no left-right model predicted that the education reform known as No Child Left Behind would pass 91-8 in the Senate and 384-41 in the House. read more