No Politics Are Local: Changing Partisan Exemplars in an Era of Declining Local News

• In Event: Declining Local News Consumption, Polarization, and Democracy

Brief Overview

How has the nationalization of the media changed people’s images of the two parties? We show that nationalization has changed the stream of the partisan exemplars encountered in the media, contributing to polarization and institutional distrust.

Author

• Dan Myers, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities