by jpitney | Oct 20, 2020 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Daniel Stid at The Art of Association: Consider the findings of a recent study by political scientists Douglas Ahler and Gaurav Sood, “The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions About Party Composition and Their Consequences.” The authors draw on survey data...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2020 | Civility, Mass Media, Polarization, Social Media
At RealClearPolitics, Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas offer four concrete suggestions for restoring civility to public discourse: Political leaders have to police their own. Change the channel. Think before retweeting. Try to understand the motivations of the other...
by jpitney | Jun 27, 2020 | Civility, Polarization, Public Opinion
Rasmus Skytte has an article at The British Journal of Political Science titled “Dimensions of Elite Partisan Polarization: Disentangling the Effects of Incivility and Issue Polarization.” The abstract: Elite partisan polarization has been found to have...
by jpitney | Feb 9, 2020 | Polarization, Public Opinion
From the Pew Research Center: At a time when the country’s polarizing politics and public discourse are dividing many Americans, close to half of all U.S. adults acknowledge that they have stopped discussing political and election news with someone, according to a new...
by jpitney | Dec 20, 2019 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Polarization
On Thursday Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress (“Select Committee”) passed its third round of bipartisan recommendations: “Since this committee was created, our mission has been to craft bipartisan solutions to make Congress work better for the people...
by jpitney | Dec 13, 2019 | Deliberation, Internet, Polarization, Social Media, Viewpoint Diversity
Samuel J. Abrams at AEI: Despite statements by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that he was changing the mission of his company to “bring the world closer together,” data from the recent AEI survey on Community and Society make it abundantly clear that social...
