"I Disrespectfully Agree": The Differential Effects of Partisan Sorting on Social and Issue Polarization
"I Disrespectfully Agree": The Differential Effects of Partisan Sorting on Social and Issue Polarization
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DOI：
10.1111/ajps.12089
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Mason, Lilliana
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作者：
Mason, Lilliana
关于大众中是否存在两极分化的分歧混淆了两种不同类型的两极分化。当社会两极分化与问题立场两极分化分开时，两极分化争论的双方都可以同时正确。社会两极分化的特点是党派偏见、激进主义和愤怒程度增加，在党派认同和政治认同结盟的推动下，社会两极分化正在加剧，不需要同样规模的问题立场两极分化。近几十年来发生的党派意识形态分类导致整个国家持有更一致的政治认同，这加强了党派认同以及强烈认同导致的激进主义、偏见和愤怒，尽管问题立场没有经历同样程度的两极分化。其结果是，这个国家在许多事情上意见一致，但仍然存在严重分歧。对ANES数据的研究发现，这些假设得到了强有力的支持。
Disagreements over whether polarization exists in the mass public have confounded two separate types of polarization. When social polarization is separated from issue position polarization, both sides of the polarization debate can be simultaneously correct. Social polarization, characterized by increased levels of partisan bias, activism, and anger, is increasing, driven by partisan identity and political identity alignment, and does not require the same magnitude of issue position polarization. The partisan-ideological sorting that has occurred in recent decades has caused the nation as a whole to hold more aligned political identities, which has strengthened partisan identity and the activism, bias, and anger that result from strong identities, even though issue positions have not undergone the same degree of polarization. The result is a nation that agrees on many things but is bitterly divided nonetheless. An examination of ANES data finds strong support for these hypotheses.