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Frontiers: Polarized America: From Political Polarization to Preference Polarization

open access: yesMarketing Science, 2023
This paper investigates whether the polarization of political ideology extends to consumers’ preferences, intentions, and purchases.
Verena Schoenmueller   +2 more
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The Political Polarization Index [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
American politics have become increasingly polarized in recent decades. To the extent that political polarization introduces uncertainty about economic policy, this pattern may have adversely affected the economy. According to existing theories, a rise in the volatility of fiscal shocks faced by individuals should result in a decline in economic ...
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Political polarization and health

Nature Medicine
In addition to social determinants of health, such as economic resources, education, access to care and various environmental factors, there is growing evidence that political polarization poses a substantial risk to individual and collective well-being. Here we review the impact of political polarization on public health.
Jay J Van Bavel   +3 more
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Polarization and Politics

2010
I’m amazed at some of the really, really painful stories that six-year-olds and seven-year-olds are bringing to school, and the efforts of schools to deal with these things.
Chester E. Finn   +2 more
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SPECIALIZED LEARNING AND POLITICAL POLARIZATION

International Economic Review, 2021
AbstractWhen citizens are differentiated by how much they care about different issues informing policy, specialization allows them to concentrate their learning on the issues that are most important to them. However, as different citizens focus on different issues, the electorate becomes less responsive to party platforms.
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Political polarization in financial news

Journal of Financial Economics, 2020
Standard explanations for political polarization of news don’t apply to financial news. Nevertheless, we find strong evidence of political polarization in corporate financial news on both intensive and extensive margins of coverage. To control for firm and newspaper heterogeneity, we compare coverage of the same firm-level events by news-papers with ...
Eitan Goldman   +2 more
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Portrait of Political Party Polarization

Network Science, 2013
To find out, we measure co-voting similarity networks in the US Senate and trace individual careers over time. Standard network visualization tools fail on dense highly clustered networks, so we used two aggregation strategies to clarify positional mobility over time. First, clusters of Senators who often vote the same way capture coalitions, and allow
James Moody, Peter J. Mucha
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Political Trust in Polarized Times

2015
As political trust levels continue to decline while levels of partisan polarization increase, we contend that more research is needed to explore the interaction between these two central features of contemporary American politics. Political scientists have debated whether explanations of political trust levels are best informed by the public’s ...
Elizabeth, Theiss-Morse   +2 more
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Political Polarization and the Decline of Power

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2014
Health care reform legislation dodged yet another threat in the fall of 2013, when a stalemate between theWhiteHouse andCongress shut down the federal government and the United States came within a day of defaulting on the national debt. One of the major points of contention? The funding of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Many attribute
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Polarization and Politics

2018
Chapter 6 explains how the three long-standing trends described in earlier chapters fed into rising political polarization, especially in Washington. First, the rise of neoliberalism pushed both Republicans and Democrats to the right, with Republicans moving farther than Democrats. Second, as stagflation and globalization unfolded, organized labor grew
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