Researchers debate the extent of issue polarization in the United States, as well as what role (if any) social identities such as partisanship and religion play in issue polarization. In an effort to answer these questions, we develop a theory that social identities may lead to issue ...
Assuming fixed propensities for polarization, I estimate that 25 to 59 percent of the change in polarization between 1984 and 2016 can be attributed to demographic change in the United States.doi:10.2139/ssrn.3148805Boxell, LeviUniversity Library of Munich, GermanySocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Assuming fixed propensities for polarization across groups, 34 percent of the change in polarization between 1984 and 2016 can be attributed to demographic change in the United States. Shifts in the educational, religious, and age compositions of the United States are the main contributing factors....
BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The gap between rich and poor in the United States hit a 50-year high in 2018 as the Gini Index of the country grew to 0.485, according to a report issued by the State Council Information Office Friday. Citing various media reports and public records, the...
Meanwhile, political rifts in the United States are also widening, and each presidential election has worsened the divisions, she said, noting that the current catastrophe is that Democrats and Republicans do not think or act alike, and they are so far apart in terms of ideologies and principles...
The United States is the most economically polarized among Western countries. It has long been stuck in the conundrum where the rich get richer and the poor become poorer.According to the latest data from its Census Bureau, the U.S. Gini coefficient hit 0.494 in 2021, setting a new record...
The meaning of POLARIZATION is division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially : a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extrem
The United States is the most economically polarized among Western countries. It has long been stuck in the conundrum where the rich get richer and the poor become poorer. According to the latest data from its Census Bureau, the U.S. Gini coefficient hit 0.494 in 2021, setting a new record...
We document that wage inequality in the top half of distribution has displayed an unchecked and rather smooth secular rise for the last 25 years (since 1980). Wage inequality in the bottom half of the distribution also grew rapidly from 1979 to 1987, but it has ceased growing (and for ...
Elected officials in the United States appear to represent relatively extreme support coalitions rather than the interests of middle-of-the-road voters. This contention is supported by analysis of variance of liberal-conservative positions in the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980. Within both th...