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Layman, Geoffrey C.; Carsey, Thomas M.

doi:10.1023/a:1021820523983

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“…In other words, Republicans and Democrats who believe they understand global warming reasonably well hold more divergent views compared with their presumably less-informed counterparts. The findings here coincide with Layman and colleagues' claim that party sorting is most likely to occur among individuals for whom the polarizing issue is salient, 35 at least if we assume that salience is higher for those reporting greater levels of understanding.…”

Section: Evidence Of Party Polarizationsupporting

confidence: 89%

A Widening Gap: Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change

Dunlap

McCright

2008

Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development

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Section: Evidence Of Party Polarizationsupporting

confidence: 89%

A Widening Gap: Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change

Dunlap

McCright

2008

Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development

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344

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“…In this article, we argue that issue preferences drive partisan change among people who prioritize the issue when the political parties diverge in their responses to newly salient issues, while others adopt their party’s newly salient position. We adapted the issue evolution model (Carmines and Stimson 1990) and the conflict extension model (Layman and Carsey 2002a, 2002b) by adding a more explicit role for partisan issue ownership. We then presented a trove of data focused on the case of sexual misconduct, including dozens of surveys, a natural experiment, and a survey experiment.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Party identification largely arises from parent socialization—when parents have the same party attachments, their children tend to grow into adulthood with the same—and that identification endures across the lifespan for most people (Jennings, Stoker, and Bowers 2009). Policy views related to prominent social groups are more stable than most (e.g., Converse 1964), but party leaders often guide party followers with cues even on these (Barber and Pope 2019; Karpowitz, Monson, and Preece 2017; Layman and Carsey 2002b). These views of norms can shift in cyclical patterns across time (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998).…”

Section: Partisanship and Issue Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Partisanship in the #MeToo Era

Holman¹,

Kalmoe²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Partisanship structures mass politics by shaping the votes, policy views, and political perceptions of ordinary people. Even so, substantial shifts in partisanship can occur when elites signal clear differences on a political issue and attentive citizens update their views of party reputations. Mismatched partisans who strongly care about the issue respond by changing parties in a process of “issue evolution” when writ large. Others simply update their views to match their party in a “conflict extension” process. We build on these models by integrating the largely separate research strands of party issue ownership. Using sexual misconduct as a critical case study, we argue that partisan change can occur rapidly when party elites move strategically to take ownership of an issue, thereby clarifying differences between the parties. Using a quasi-experiment, a survey experiment, and data from dozens of national surveys, we find recent, rapid shifts in party reputations on #MeToo, views of the issue, party votes, and broader party support.

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“…Not only can parties reduce the salience of a cleavage by diluting the options presented to voters, but they can also affect public opinion itself. Previous research has demonstrated the influence that party polarization can have on public opinion (Abramowitz, 2010;Druckman et al, 2013;Hetherington, 2001;Iyengar et al, 2012;Layman and Carsey, 2002;Hillygus and Jackman, 2003;Jensen and Thomsen, 2013;Medina, 2015). This mechanism can also help explain the declining salience of economic attitudes.…”

Section: Party Polarization and Public Opinionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution

Mayo

2023

Party Politics

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Although extensive research has analyzed the factors that moderate economic self-interest—the relationship between individuals’ income position and their preferences for redistribution—there is little crossnational research that analyzes the role of political parties. This article argues that political parties play a considerable moderating role in (de-)activating economic self-interest based on the polarization they display in their economic and cultural positions. By combining the World/European Values Survey, the World Income Inequality Database, and the Comparative Manifesto Project datasets, the analyses estimate the moderating effect of party polarization on economic self-interest. The results suggest that economic polarization enhances self-interest for the poor (respondents below the mean income), even when controlling for income inequality, but not for the rich. Moreover, cultural polarization also appears to reinforce self-interest for the poor, rather than supplanting it. The findings have important implications regarding ability for political parties to activate issues among the public.

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Cited by 143 publications

References 41 publications

A Widening Gap: Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change

A Widening Gap: Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change

Partisanship in the #MeToo Era

Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution

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