Mukand, Sharun W. and Kaplan, Ethan (2011) Persistence of political partisanship : evidence from 9/11. Working Paper. Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper empirically examines whether the act of deciding to support a political party can impact partisan leanings years later. We use the discontinuity in the probability of being registered to vote around the 18th birthday to look at the impact of registration after the 9/11/01 attacks on party of registration. We first show that 9/11 increased Republican registration by approximately 2%. Surprisingly, these di¤erences in registration patterns fully persist over the two year period from 2006 to 2008, even for a group of registrants who moved and changed their registration address. We find full persistence for those registered in zip codes within two miles of a four year university, suggesting that persistence is unlikely to be explained by lack of easy access to or inability to process information. Instead, we suggest an interpretation of our findings based upon either cognitive or social biases.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Series Name:	CAGE Online Working Paper Series
Publisher:	Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Place of Publication:	Coventry
Date:	May 2011
Volume:	Vol.2011
Number:	No.43
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/45536

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