Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levendusky, Matthew S

Titel

One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy. By Marietta, Morgan and Barker, David C. . New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 360 p. $43.95 cloth. Angry Politics: Partisan Hatred and Political Polarization among College Students. By Ulbig, Stacy G. . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. 262 p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper

Ist Teil von

• Perspectives on Politics, 2021, Vol.19 (4), p.1334-1336

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]I have lingering concerns about the extent to which the analysis can fully disentangle the effects of values from the effects of partisanship. Values are endogenous to partisanship (Paul Goren, “Party Identification and Core Political Values,” American Journal of Political Science, 2005; Annemarie Walter and David Redlawsk, “Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior,” Political Psychology, 2019), and values drive political behavior because partisan political elites invoke those values in their rhetoric (Paul Goren, Christopher Federico, and Miki Caul Kittilson, “Source Cues, Partisan Identities, and Political Value Expression,” American Journal of Political Science, 2009). Because few voters, except perhaps the most sophisticated, would be able to map values into political beliefs without party cues, to what extent can we meaningfully discuss their independent effects conceptually or empirically? [...]Ulbig draws on a novel set of items to measure affective polarization, which are taken from the literature on ethnic antagonism (Eran Halperin, Daphna Canetti, and Shaul Kimhi, “In Love with Hatred: Rethinking the Role Hatred Plays in Shaping Political Behavior,” Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2012). [...]the results in this book suggest that these different dimensions of partisan animosity have different causes, and also different effects, especially with respect to outcomes such as political compromise.