Cognitive Misers are Ideologues: Party Policy--Not Group Composition--Is Easier for Americans to Understand

• In Event: Group Cues and Opinion Formation

Brief Overview

Party systems, rather than human nature, determine the cognitive demands associated with political information. Using an experiment on the 2019 CCES, I show that policy offers Americans the lowest-effort framework for understanding partisan conflict.

Author

• Eric Robert Schmidt, Indiana University-Bloomington