Party loyalty as habit formation
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Ron Shachar
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In most democracies, at least two out of any three individuals vote for the same party in sequential elections. This paper presents a model in which voteβpersistence is partly due to the dependence of the utility on the previous voting decision. This dependence is termed βhabit formatio