How Ideological Enclaves (Re)Shape our Social and Political Attitudes

• In Event: Political Psychology of Polarization

Brief Overview

We find that living in ideological enclaves extremizes political attitudes, but only for conservatives: Conservatives tend to (re)align their attitudes with their local communities—e.g., following a move to a new neighborhood—while liberals do not.

Authors

• Benjamin Coe Ruisch, University of Kent

• Rajen Anderson

• Francesca Manzi, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Chadly Stern, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign