"If par- ties in government are weakened," Wattenberg argued, "the public will naturally have less of a stimulus to think of themselves politically in partisan terms"
Wattenberg는 “만약 정부 정당들이 약화된다면, 대중은 자연스럽게 당파적인 용어(partisan terms)에서 스스로를 정치적으로 생각하는 자극이 적어질 것이다”고 주장했다.
저 문장을 이렇게 해석해 봤는데 맞는지좀 봐주시면 감사하겠습니다.. 해석하고도 이해가 잘 안돼서요 ㅠㅠ
However, the plausibility of a causal link between recent increases in partisanship at the elite and mass lev- els is reinforced by the fact that the decline in partisan voting in the electorate in the 1960s and 1970s was itself preceded by a noticeable decline in party voting in Con- gress from the 1950s through the early 1970s.
더불어 이 문장에 대한 해석도 부탁드립니다...ㅠㅠ