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established a baseline for most of the scholarly debate that has followed in the decades since. Criticism has followed along several different lines. Some argue that Campbell and his colleagues set the bar too high, expecting voters to be far more sophisticated and rational than is reasonable. Some
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has served as a springboard from which many modern political scientists form their views on voting behavior even though the study only represents one specific time in one particular place.
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gives them credit for. His famous line "Voters are not fools" summarizes this view. Successors in the Michigan school have argued that in relying heavily on data from the
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drew conclusions that were not accurate over time; in particular, partisan identification has weakened in the years since 1956, a phenomenon sometimes known as
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Campbell, A., Converse, P.E., Miller, W.E., & Stokes, D.E. (1980)
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Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process.
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Miller, W.E., Shanks, J.M., & Shapiro, R.Y. (1996)
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Angus Campbell
Philip Converse
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Donald E. Stokes
University of Michigan
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V. O. Key, Jr.
1956 presidential election
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Warren Miller
University of California, Berkeley
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The American Voter.

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