Avoidance of Disagreeable Discussants Shapes Networks: 2000-2016

• In Event: Networks, Voters, and Polarization

Brief Overview

How much effort do voters put into talking to disagreeable discussion partners? Through avoidance of dissimilar others, partisans evade regular political discussion with members of the opposite party, in favor of their in-group.

Author

• Ross Butters, University of California-Davis