{"id":6133,"date":"2011-04-15T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2011-04-15T18:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:11:29","slug":"the-disappearing-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6133","title":{"rendered":"the disappearing center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This chart from Alan I. Abramowitz, <a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/YUPBOOKS\/book.asp?isbn=0300141629\">The Disappearing Center<\/a> (Yale, 2010) deserves attention:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/Abramowitz.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>Turnout has risen for people who strongly identify with parties and has fallen for those who do not. Or &#8230; people who vote have become more attached to parties, while people who don&#8217;t vote have moved into the Independent column. Or some of both. As a result, an Independent is likely to be a non-voter and a voter is likely to be a partisan. This was far from true in the 1950s. I am not sure whether the trend is good or bad, but it is an important explanation of politics today.<\/p>\n<p>(All the turnout rates shown above are exaggerated because of social desirability bias, but the relationships among partisanship, year, and likelihood of voting should be valid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart from Alan I. Abramowitz, The Disappearing Center (Yale, 2010) deserves attention: Turnout has risen for people who strongly identify with parties and has fallen for those who do not. Or &#8230; people who vote have become more attached to parties, while people who don&#8217;t vote have moved into the Independent column. Or some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}