Academic Journal
Dynamics of political polarization
| العنوان: | Dynamics of political polarization |
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| المؤلفون: | Delia Baldassarri, Peter Bearman, Peter S. Bearman |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:129051/CONTENT/2006_07.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | interpersonal influence, political and social polarization, social network dynamics, formal models |
| الوصف: | This article accounts for two puzzling paradoxes. The first paradox is the simultaneous absence and presence of attitude polarization, the fact that global attitude polarization is relatively rare, even though pundits describe it as common. The second paradox is the simultaneous presence and absence of social polarization, the fact that while individuals experienced attitude homogeneity in their interpersonal networks, their networks are characterized by attitude heterogeneity. These paradoxes give rise to numerous scholarly arguments. By deploying a formal model of interpersonal influence over attitudes in a context where individuals hold simultaneous positions on multiple issues we show why these arguments are not mutually exclusive and how they meaningfully refer to the same social setting. It follows that the results from this model provide a single parsimonious account for both paradoxes. The framework we develop may be generalized to a wider array of |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.476.3855; http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:129051/CONTENT/2006_07.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.476.3855 http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:129051/CONTENT/2006_07.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.294BC513 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |