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The last section of a well-known earlier production by the same team of University of Michigan psephologists, The American Voter, bore the title, 'The Electoral Decision and the Political System'. It was a short section, which tentatively advanced a few suggestions and frankly recognized the need for further work, focused on the consequences of the electoral process, as against its makings in the personality and the group affiliations of individuals.
Seeley et al. (Sat,) studied this question.