Cultural Divide and Polarization: Spatial Models on Bestseller Book Data

• In Event: Standing ePanel: Partisan Divisions in America

Brief Overview

Collecting large volume of bestseller data from the last decade, we examine the cultural divide using spatial models and analyze the unbalanced cultural sphere that could have shaped the political polarization in America.

Authors

• Karl Ho, The University of Texas at Dallas

• Euel Elliott, University of Texas at Dallas