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  • In this paper we revisit the debate on the usefulness of the concept of party identification in cross-national research. In our earlier work we showed that, at least in the Netherlands, party identification was empirically hardly discernible from the vote, whereas party identification was less stable than vote choice (Thomassen, 1976). As several authors argued that these findings might be due to the nature of the times in the Netherlands, we replicate these analyses with data spanning a longer period of time on the basis of the Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (DPES). The analyses mainly confirm our original findings. We then proceed to explore the same issue from a comparative perspective, utilizing the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). We show that explaining vote choice on the basis of the concept of party identification appears also problematic in several other parliamentary and presidential systems across Europe. Therefore, we discuss an alternative conceptualisation and operationalisation, which we test in the same context. The analyses confirm the strong correlation between partisanship and vote choice across Europe, but suggest that in particular contexts both may be discerned. We discuss the implications of these findings for theoretical modelling as well as questionnaire design. (xsd:string)
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