Abstract
A NUMBER OF recent studies have argued persuasively that policy issues play a significant role in voter decision-making.' Although they are an important addition to voting research, these studies leave several major questions about the information level of the voter unresolved. This is unfortunate, for the quantity and quality of the underlying information must affect one's interpretation of the studies' findings. purpose of this research note is to present data that have bearing on two of these unresolved considerations-namely, the relationship between political information and (1) strength of party identification and (2) voting defection. On the basis of the impressive investigations conducted by the Michigan Survey Research Center/Center for Political Studies (SRC/CPS), it is generally thought that strong partisans are more informed than weak partisans. And weak partisans, in turn, are presumed to be more informed than Independents. Partisans, however, apparently use their information to reinforce their partisanship. As Converse puts it: The
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