Reading Assignment:
Jerome M Clubb, William H. Flanigan, Nancy H. Zingale, "PARTISAN
REALIGNMENT SINCE 1960", A Paper Prepared for delivery at the
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois,
September 1976.
Assignment:
Use the paper by Clubb, et al. to generate a hypothesis about American voting
behavior in presidential elections which can be tested using survey data. Use the
data from the 1996 election study and two other years of your choice to test
your hypothesis. In testing your hypothesis you must use crosstabs and control
for a third variable or use normal vote
anaylsis.
Be prepared to make an oral presentation to the class regarding your findings. If
you choose to, you may work in groups.