The Nature of Belief Networks in Mass Publics: Determining the Nature and Extent of Constraint Using Network Analysis

• In Event: Values and Belief Systems

Brief Overview

Using ANES data from 1992 to 2016, we show how the structure of the mass public’s belief systems has both changed and remained constant by novelly employing network analysis such that survey variables are nodes and correlations among them are edges.

Authors

• Allen Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Connor Choate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill