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The Hispanic Immigrant Voter and the Classic American Voter: Presidential Support in the 2012 Election
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The Hispanic Immigrant Voter and the Classic American Voter: Presidential Support in the 2012 Election

Michael S Lewis-Beck and Mary Stegmaier
RSF : Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences, Vol.2(3), pp.165-181
2016
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.3.09
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Abstract

In their classic 1960 work, Angus Campbell and his colleagues offer a model to explain political behavior. They posit a funnel of causality, whereby the causal flow moved from remote long-term forces, such as socio-demographics and party identification, to more immediate short-term forces, such as issues and candidates, finally arriving at the vote choice itself. This explanation has withstood the test of time in studies of the United States and other democracies. The question at hand in this article is how Latin American immigrants comport themselves in the national political environment of the United States. Can the political preferences of Hispanic immigrants be explained pretty much the way the political preferences of native-born Americans can be explained? In other words, does the funnel of causality apply to them? Our findings, based on analysis of 2012 American National Election Study and Latino Immigrant National Election Study survey data, indicate that it does.
 Hispanic voters presidential approval voting behavior 2012 presidential election American voters

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