caa a22 4500 386379408 CHVBK 20180307112035.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900001347 doi S0008423900001347 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900001347 MacDermid R. H. York University The Recall of Past Partisanship: Feeble Memories or Frail Concepts? [Elektronische Daten] [R. H. MacDermid] It has been suggested that recall questions are unreliable measures of change in party identification. Data reported in this article confirm that 50 per cent of respondents in the 1974-1980 Canadian National Election Study three-wave panel had inconsistent patterns of recall. This finding urges caution in analysis; more importantly, such inconsistency raises questions about how to interpret recall behaviour in the light of party identification theory. The available evidence and unclear theory seem to point toward the possibility that at least one-half of the national sample lacked a meaningful federal party identification. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1989 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-06), 363-376 0008-4239 22:2<363 1989 22 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900001347 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900001347 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- MacDermid R. H. York University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-06), 363-376 0008-4239 22:2<363 1989 22 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge