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Power of Partisanship [Minkštas viršelis]

(Professor and Chair of Political Science and Director of the Center for Public Opinion, University of Massachusetts Lowell), (Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in the School of Public Pol)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x158x16 mm, weight: 367 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Sep-2023
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0197623794
  • ISBN-13: 9780197623794
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x158x16 mm, weight: 367 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Sep-2023
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0197623794
  • ISBN-13: 9780197623794
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"We argue that ideology lacks meaning in the United States: what is conservative and liberal is that which Republicans and Democrats have labeled "conservative," and "liberal." This premise is central to how we understand the role of the political parties in American political behavior and why political party leaders are so essential to crafting the beliefs of partisans in the electorate. Second, we trace how the parties have evolved on issues over time, highlighting the lack of ideological consistency in the party platforms. We then explain how negative partisanship and partisan-motivated reasoning create a situation where partisans are psychologically rewarded for adopting the party's position and being receptive to information from their own party while blocking information from other sources"--

In The Power of Partisanship, Joshua J. Dyck and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz argue that the growth in partisan polarization in the United States, and the resulting negativity voters feel towards their respective opposition party, has far-reaching effects on how Americans behave both inside and outside the realm of politics. In fact, no area of social life in the United States is safe from partisan influence. As a result of changes in the media landscape and decades of political polarization, voters are stronger partisans than in the past and are more likely to view the opposition party with a combination of confusion, disdain, and outright hostility. Yet, little of this hostility is grounded in specific policy preferences. Even ideology lacks meaning in the United States: conservative and liberal are what Republicans and Democrats have labeled "conservative" and "liberal."

Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how partisanship influences the electorate's support for democratic norms, willingness to engage in risk related to financial and healthcare decisions, interracial interactions, and previously non-political decisions like what we like to eat for dinner. Partisanship prevents people from learning from their interactions with friends or the realities of their neighborhoods, and even makes them oblivious to their own economic hardship. The intensity and pervasiveness of partisanship in politics today has resulted in "political knowledge" becoming an endogenous feature of strong partisanship and a poor proxy for anything but partisan behavior. Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz present evidence that pure independents are, in fact, very responsive to information because they are not biased by partisan elite cues and important and relevant political information is often local, contextual, and personal. Drawing on a series of original surveys and experiments conducted
between 2014 and 2020, Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how the dominance of partisanship as a decision cue has fundamentally transformed our understanding of both political and non-political behavior.

Recenzijos

Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz conduct a wide-ranging investigation into the effects of partisanship. Drawing on surveys and an array of other data, they show that partisanship and partisan cues shape attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across a huge range of domains, extending well beyond the political realm. This creative and thought-provoking study illuminates the drivers of growing affective polarization in society, as well as the challenges facing American democracy ahead. * Frances E. Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University * This book convincingly demonstrates how partisanship distorts our view of the world. Through a series of well-designed experiments, Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how our responses to partisan signals affects everything from the politicians and policies we support to the foods we like. They also reveal how independent voters may be both more savvy than often portrayed and better able than partisans to realistically assess the world. This book is vital for those seeking to understand partisanship and its role in our political system. * Seth Masket, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on American Politics, University of Denver * In this groundbreaking book, Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz go beyond the well-tread domain of how partisanship affects politics to document how deep the influence of affective attachments to parties has become. The pair make two key contributions. First, they document that partisanship has become so toxic that the ameliorative power of positive intergroup contactlong thought to reduce intergroup animosityhas little impact on how we view out-partisans. Second, they question the value of measures of political knowledge. As what we know about politics has become endogenous to partisanship, the political science canon about how political knowledge affects political preferences becomes upended and in need of revision. A must-read for students of American politics today. * Alexandra Filindra, Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago * This is an important cautionary tale, well supported by the authors' evidence... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice * This is an important cautionary tale, well supported by the authors' evidence. * Choice *


Introduction
Chapter 1: Partisanship and Ideology in Political Decision-Making
Chapter 2: Elite Cues, Negative Partisanship, and the Changing Media Landscape
Chapter 3: Partisanship, Policy, Compromise, and the Non-political
Chapter 4: Partisanship, Race, and Intergroup Contact
Chapter 5: Prospect Theory and Partisan Cues
Chapter 6: Political Responsiveness to the Lived Experience
Chapter 7: Independents, Knowledge, and Alienation
Chapter 8: An Elite Problem Calls for an Elite Solution
Appendix
Joshua J. Dyck is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department and Director of the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is co-author of Initiatives without Engagement.

Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz is Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.