Assessing the Ideological Extremism of American Party Activists

Party Politics

Assessing the Ideological Extremism of American Party Activists
Marjorie Hershey, Nathaniel E. Birkhead
Publication Date
2018

An empirical analysis of national survey data to show that different types of party activists (e.g., those who donate money to the party, compared with those who campaign for a candidate or who try to influence other people's votes) have different types of social characteristics and political views, though they tend to be more extreme ideologically than non-activist party identifiers are.