United We Divide? Education, Income, and Heterogeneity in Mass Partisan Polarization Chapter

abstract

• The resurgence of mass partisanship over the last half century is among the most important developments in modern American politics. Party elites have polarized on a variety of issues, and citizens have responded by becoming better able to understand party issue conflict, more likely to hold an affective commitment to one party over another, and more apt to structure their attitudes to reflect the issue structure of elite party conflict (for example, Hetherington 2001; Pomper and Weiner 2002). In the aggregate, the result is a mass party system that is more polarized on a variety of domains (Abramowitz and Saunders 1998; Layman and Carsey 2002; Baldassarri and Gelman 2008). 2011 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved.

authors

• Ura, Joseph

author list (cited authors)

• Ellis, C., & Ura, J. D.

complete list of authors

• Ellis, Christopher||Ura, Joseph Daniel

Book Title

• WHO GETS REPRESENTED?

publication date

• January 2011

keywords

• Issue Evolution
• Partisanship
• Polarization

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-0-87154-242-7

start page

• 61

end page

• 92