Carriers of the Creed? Affective Polarization among Party Activists

• In Event: Party Activists and Party Politics in the 2016 Election II

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use the 2012 and 2016 Convention Delegate Studies (CDS) to test whether party activists’ affective responses toward the out-party, its candidates and its ideological label have become substantially more negative i

Authors

• Robert N. Lupton, University of Connecticut

• Kerem Ozan Kalkan, Eastern Kentucky University