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Do Improving Conditions Harden Partisan Preferences? Lived Experiences, Imagined Communities, and Polarized Evaluations
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Dhavan V Shah,
Chris Wells,
Michael W Wagner,
Lewis A Friedland,
Katherine J Cramer,
Ceri Hughes,
Charles Franklin
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 750 - 768
Swansea University Author: Ceri Hughes
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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/ijpor/edz051
Abstract
Despite growing attention to an increasing partisan divide and populist voting, little attention has been directed at how social contexts might encourage greater or lesser political polarization. We address this gap by studying how county-level conditions—economic resilience, population change, and...
| Published in: | International Journal of Public Opinion Research |
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| ISSN: | 0954-2892 1471-6909 |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60715 |
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Despite growing attention to an increasing partisan divide and populist voting, little attention has been directed at how social contexts might encourage greater or lesser political polarization. We address this gap by studying how county-level conditions—economic resilience, population change, and community health—intersect with individuals’ political orientations and communication patterns to shape partisan evaluations. Our context is Wisconsin around the 2012 election, with our focus on two prominent political figures: Governor Scott Walker and President Barack Obama. Multilevel modeling reveals that partisans living in counties with more affluent, less precarious conditions during 2009–2012 exhibited more polarized partisan attitudes toward Walker and Obama. Our analysis also finds a significant role for interpersonal communication and digital media in shaping polarized attitudes. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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The work was supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and
Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with funding
from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (UW2020 Program). |
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4 |
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750 |
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768 |