Who’s at the Party? Polarization and the Social Bases of Partisanship

• In Event: Identity

Brief Overview

We analyze national survey, panel, and experimental data, and find that citizens’ affect toward politically-aligned groups, and beliefs about the social composition of each party’s coalition, systematically predict their strength of party attachment.

Authors

• John Victor Kane, New York University

• Lilliana Hall Mason, University of Maryland-College Park

• Julie Ann Wronski, University of Mississippi