Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention has been paid to polarization on other issue dimensions and the mass-elite ...
As COVID-19 ravaged the US in the first quarter of 2020, the US lacked a uniform mandatory policy for containing its spread. Governors facing enormous opposingdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3575004Tellis, Gerard J.Sood, NitishSood, AshishSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
So, to make that a freedom issue is pretty silly! (T3 WS07) Several interviewees thought these parties were exploiting people’s fears, experiences of uncertainty and feelings of insecurity. Yet another participant, an older man with a high school diploma and a high income, said: Well, I...
"When you start seeing people as 'others,' you make less affordances for how they might be behaving," he said. "We see it as emblematic of a larger social issue." Another factor that could be playing into this societal unrest is the lack of acknowledgment of how hard...
Group Polarization: Group polarization is a socio-psychological phenomenon first described by James Stoner in his graduate thesis. He discovered that after discussing an issue, the opinion of the average group members tends to sway toward the extreme side of the argument. ...
It’s no secret that tensions are high among parties. Data sayspolitical polarizationis reaching a fever pitch. Not everythinghasto be partisan, though. Note what we said earlier about the fact that not everyone wants to hear about politics. This might also be the case for people thatdofollo...
Political meaning, in particular, emerges from the associations communities attach to things. Politics is an activity aimed at resolving collective problems among communities. It reflects the perceived contributions of actions, objects, or ideas to political debates. In this sense, political meaning is...
This polarization is not just a political issue—it affects our day-to-day interactions with those around us. When we live in echo chambers, we become less empathetic toward those who think differently. A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Review found tha...
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Around the world, citizens are voting away the democracies they claim to cherish. Here we present evidence that this behaviour is driven in part by the belief that their opponents will undermine democracy first. In an observational study (N = 1,973