For Wed, read Hershey ch. 8.
Paper assignment
What is party identification?
Party registration is not the same as party identification
These 19 states do not provide for party preferences in voter registration: Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.Thirty-one states and DC do register by party.
Party change over time: another look at the cinematic map
Trends in party affiliation through 2014
Coming Apart
- Neighborhoods
- Race, ethnicity, education and party bases.
- The Diploma Divide and geography
- Self-descibed ideology
- Aversive Partisanship
- Example: "If you are a zombie or a human rodent who wants a shadow-life of timid conformity, then put away this essay and go memorize the poetry of Amanda Gorman. Real men and women who love honor and beauty, keep reading."
- "Nearly a quarter of college students wouldn't be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to new Generation Lab/Axios polling."
- Recent study: "Compared to a baseline of no political information, the effect size for co-partisans on romantic interest is small and positive, whereas the effect size for out-partisans is negative and moderate in magnitude. Hence, among partisans, the effect of partisan information on the decision-making process tends to be driven largely by a desire not to date a member of the opposite party, rather than a preference for co-partisans. This finding is in line with previous work on online dating (Nicholson et al., 2016) and on other interpersonal relationships (Gift and Gift, 2015; Shafranek, 2021).
- Dating and marriage
- News sources and Factual beliefs
- Rationalization
- Authoritarianism and violence:
