Field seminar B 2009-2010, Week 10

The Michigan Model, Professor Michael Marsh

This is classically presented in A. Cambell et al The American Voter, which is available via Google online. Critical chapters are 2, 6 and 7. Or look at a redced version, for instance in R. Niemi and H. Weisberg eds, Classics in Electoral Behaviour ch 22 [based on TAV ch 6-7].

A sympathetic  but contemporary restatement is M. Lewis-Beck at al, The American Voter Revisited ch 6-7.

For Ireland

Michael Marsh, Party identification in Ireland An insecure anchor for a floating party system’, Electoral Studies, 25, (3), 2006, p489 – 508

available from INES page at [www.tcd.ie/ines]

A recent debate on party identification is Bartle and Bellucci’s edited volume Political Parties and Partisanship, Routledge 2008.  See esp:

• Chapter 3: Thomassen and Rosema
• Chapter 4 B. Grofman et al
• Chapter  6 Clark et al
• Chapter 11 Green and Schickler – a defence of TAV.