Abstract

AGUILAR LOPEZ, Jesús. Partisan identification: theoretical notes for its study. Polis [online]. 2008, vol.4, n.2, pp.15-46. ISSN 2594-0686.

Based on a review of the concept of partisan identification across the different tendencies of electoral behavior, the essay arrives to three basic dimensions: construction, strength and partisan identification direction. It highlight's of the need for convergence of the different approaches that have analyzed electoral behavior, but without falling to an uncritical eclecticism. It also proposes an index to measure the fundamental dimension of partisan identification: force.

Keywords : partisan identification; direction of partisan identification; the strength of partisan identification; voting behavior; political change.