
This article seeks to differentiate between partisan affections and partisan self-images and analyzes how changes in respondents' partisan affections may relate to changes in their partisan self-images. Analysis revealed that changes in partisan affections (1) precede adoption of partisan self-images on the part of self-classified Independents, and (2) precede changes in the nature of partisan self-images on the part of those identifying with a major political party.
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