Affective polarization is uniformly distributed across American States

被引:1
作者
Holliday, Derek E. [1 ]
Lelkes, Yphtach [2 ]
Westwood, Sean J. [3 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Polit Sci, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[2] Univ Penn, Annenberg Sch Commun, 3620 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[3] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Govt, 3 Tuck Mall, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
来源
PNAS NEXUS | 2024年 / 3卷 / 10期
关键词
affective polarization; partisanship; political geography; POLITICAL-SCIENCE; PARTISAN MEDIA; IDEOLOGY; EXPOSURE; MODELS;
D O I
10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae310
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
US partisans view each other with increasing negativity. While many attribute the growth of such affective polarization to nationally cross-cutting forces, such as ideological partisan sorting or access to partisan media, others emphasize the effects of contextual and institutional forces. For the first time, we introduce and explore data sufficiently granular to fully map the extent of partisan animosity across the US states. With a massive, nationally representative survey we find that, counter to expectations, variation in affective polarization across states is relatively small, and is instead largely a function of individual-level attitudinal (but not demographic) characteristics. While elections pit regions of the country against others, our results suggest affective polarization is a national, not regional, problem, requiring national interventions.
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