Radical American Partisanship

Kalmoe, Nathan P.; Mason, Lilliana

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“…The article’s ( 2 ) empirics are presented as a novel, necessary critique, but they largely replicate and extend the findings in our book ( 1 ), which we sent the authors several months before their publication. The article repeatedly cites our book but does not represent it.…”

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“…We write to correct misrepresentations of our book ( 1 ) in Westwood et al.’s ( 2 ) article on the American public’s violent political views. The article strains to frame itself as a refutation, but, in fact, it counters a straw man.…”

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“…The timing of academic publishing means the article ( 2 ) rushed into print before our book ( 1 ), so its selective descriptions of our work left reviewers unable to fully weigh the article’s claims and contributions.…”

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“…Like the article ( 2 ), our book ( 1 ) begins by showing that a small minority of the public holds violent political views on most questions, but levels of support depend greatly on details. In fact, most of the book focuses on how question wording and political context change observed support for political violence.…”

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A holistic view of conditional American support for political violence

Kalmoe

Mason

2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A holistic view of conditional American support for political violence

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2022

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“…9 Research on the prevalence and determinants of support for political violence in the US is sparse. [11][12][13][14][15] Existing work has been criticized on multiple grounds, including failures to define violence, to determine whether support for political violence reflects support for violence generally, and to determine whether persons who endorse political violence are willing to engage in such violence themselves. 14,15 Many important and urgent questions remain insufficiently explored, or unexplored altogether.…”

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Views of American Democracy and Society and Support for Political Violence: First Report from a Nationwide Population-Representative Survey

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Robinson

Crawford

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BackgroundSeveral social trends in the United States (US) suggest an increasing risk for political violence. Little is known about support for and personal willingness to engage in political violence and how those measures vary with lethality of violence, specific circumstances, or specific populations as targets.Design, Setting, ParticipantsCross-sectional nationwide survey conducted May 13 to June 2, 2022; participants were adult members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel.Main Outcomes and MeasuresWeighted, population-representative proportions endorsing an array of beliefs about American democracy and society and the use of violence, including political violence, and extrapolations to the US adult population.ResultsThe analytic sample included 8,620 respondents; 50.6% (95% Confidence Interval (CI) 49.4%, 51.7%) were female; mean (SD) age was 48.4 (18.0) years. Two-thirds of respondents (67.2%, 95% CI 66.1%, 68.4%) perceived “a serious threat to our democracy,” but more than 40% agreed that “having a strong leader for America is more important than having a democracy” and that “in America, native-born white people are being replaced by immigrants.” Half (50.1%) agreed that “in the next few years, there will be civil war in the United States.” Among 6,768 respondents who considered violence to be at least sometimes justified to achieve 1 or more specific political objectives, 12.2% were willing to commit political violence themselves “to threaten or intimidate a person,” 10.4% “to injure a person,” and 7.1% “to kill a person.” Among all respondents, 18.5% thought it at least somewhat likely that within the next few years, in a situation where they believed political violence was justified, “I will be armed with a gun”; 4.0% thought it at least somewhat likely that “I will shoot someone with a gun.”Conclusions and RelevanceCoupled with prior research, these findings suggest a continuing alienation from and mistrust of American democratic society and its institutions. Substantial minorities of the population endorse violence, including lethal violence, to obtain political objectives. Efforts to prevent that violence, which a large majority of Americans already reject, should proceed rapidly based on the best evidence available. Further research will inform future prevention efforts.

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Supporting the Public Health Workforce Requires Collective Actions to Address Harassment and Threats

Gollust

2022

JAMA Netw Open

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Elsewhere in JAMA Network Open, Topazian and colleagues 1 report the striking finding that more than 1 in 5 US adults believe that harassing or threatening public health officials because of business closures during the COVID-19 pandemic is justified. Specifically, the authors analyzed 2 waves of a nationally representative panel survey of US adults, in November 2020 and July to August 2021, and found increases in the share of adults who endorsed harassments and threats for public health workers, with 25% of respondents justifying harassing and 21% justifying threatening such officials. This important study not only documents the overall prevalence of these concerning beliefs, but it goes deeper to identify particular groups who are more likely to endorse either of these beliefs at 1 or more of the time points: men, those with lower income and education, Hispanic people, younger people, and those with less trust in science. Surprisingly, given persistent partisan differences in

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Radical American Partisanship

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A holistic view of conditional American support for political violence

A holistic view of conditional American support for political violence

Views of American Democracy and Society and Support for Political Violence: First Report from a Nationwide Population-Representative Survey

Supporting the Public Health Workforce Requires Collective Actions to Address Harassment and Threats

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