Journal article
Identifying Political Habits Beyond Voting
American politics research
2026
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X261462162
Abstract
Voting is repetitive and persistent, but these ideas have received scarce attention when it comes to other political behaviors. Do repetition and persistence characterize political acts beyond voting? Drawing together existing theories of participation with the idea of habit, we present an integrated model of repeated behavior. We then analyze the characteristics of 17 different political acts using two methodological approaches including a “conditions on observables” approach using the 2010-2014 Cooperative Election Study Panel and a “direct measurement” approach using a new survey instrument called the Self-Report Habit Index on two Qualtrics surveys and the 2020 Cooperative Election Study Panel. From these results, we identify political acts along a spectrum of habit, discuss the implications, and provide suggestions for future work on political habits.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Identifying Political Habits Beyond Voting
- Creators
- Christopher Ojeda - University of California SystemJulianna Pacheco - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American politics research
- DOI
- 10.1177/1532673X261462162
- ISSN
- 1532-673X
- eISSN
- 1552-3373
- Publisher
- Sage
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 2026
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9985176764902771
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