Partisan Polarization Flashcards
What are the different measures of polarization?
- Partisan polarization
- Ideological polarization
- Issue polarization
What is negative partisanship?
The incentive for voting is changing. It’s not longer to support a persons personal party, but the vote is being casted to dismantle another party.
Examples of Negative Partisanship
Pew Research Center: Republicans gave Democrats a “cold” rating on a 0-100 thermometer has risen 14 percentage points since 2016 – with virtually all of the increase coming in “very cold” ratings (0-24).
Inter-Party Marriage
79% of people marry within their party and only 4% of those people are D and R
Measure of polarization: the electorate (Abramowitz, Ch. 5)
- he states that there are no more landslide elections
- there is ideological polarization happening
- there are state line representation (red/blue states)
- consistency of election outcomes
What does it mean to be “primaried”?
- Before the election: strong partisons are more likely to vote for pre-elections
- one of the main contributors to elite-level polarization.
- facing an intra-party challenge from an ideologically extremist candidate.
What is Ideological Polarization?
Political polarization can refer to the divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes. the differences in ideas or morals
Partisan and Ideological Sorting
Giving people the option to identify themselves. Dems ident. as liberal and R indent. as conservative
Republican Racial Dog Whistles
What is Racial Resentment?
how racial resentment can be measured (what your paper was about)
What are the causes of Partisan Polarization?
- Roe v Wade
- Reagan Era
- Race-based partisan alignment in the South
- Bush no new taxes pledge
- Gingrich era in Congress
- New media and echo chambers
- ideologically-motivated interest groups
- gerrymandering
- patterns of migration
House Freedom Caucus (Pew, Jan 2023)
