Thanks to Larry and Peter for the updates.

I posted this primarily because I've found the whole exchange a lively
and productive teaching module, at least for advanced undergraduates.

Frank raises a question that many undergraduates raise--how and why is
the Republican party successful in attracting and holding the loyalties
of voters who, on objective economic grounds, ought to be voting for the
Democrats.

The rejoinders and re-rejoinders provide additional grist for
discussion.  How do you measure working class?  What constitutes
objective interests?  What is the right research design (surveys, focus
groups, ethnographic studies, aggregate analyses) for measuring these
interests and testing these models?  Is there anything non-rational
about voting on the basic of moral commitments vs. economic interests?

You can follow this exchange with the exchanges over Fiorina's "Culture
Wars" book (see the papers available at the Harvard Political Behavior
blog (thanks to Barry Burden, http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/pb/) and at
the "Forum" website (thanks to Nelson Polsby and Ray LaRaja
http://www.bepress.com/forum/).

Both make fine examples to chew over, replicate, and extend.


Peter Loewen wrote:

>My apologies to all: I intended to respond to Paul directly. Nonetheless,
>the paper can be found at
>http://www.princeton.edu/~csdp/events/pdfs/seminars/Bartels020906.pdf on the
>site of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.
>
>Peter
>
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>Subject: [POLMETH] Frank rejoinder to Bartels
>
>I was searching for Larry Bartels's APSA piece on Thomas Frank's "Whats
>the Matter with Kansas" when I stumbled across this rejoinder by Frank.
>Thought is might be of interest to some.  It's not linked off of Frank's
>website.
>
>http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf
>
>Larry's original piece is here
>
>http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf
>
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