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Political polarization (spelled polarisation in British English, African and Caribbean English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes.
Apr 16, 2024 · Political polarization is the ideological distance between opposed parties. If the differences are large, it can produce logjams, standoffs, and inflexibility in Congress and state and local governments. Though it can be frustrating, political polarization is not necessarily dysfunctional.
Ideologies provide people with frameworks to evaluate the relative legitimacy of different approaches to social order. Such ideologies often involve an opposition between right-leaning ideologies, which tend to justify and maintain the traditional order, and left-leaning ideologies, which advocate for systemic reforms to reduce hierarchies.
Apr 16, 2024 · When people have much dispersed positions on ideology and policy, we are witnessing ideological polarization. The further apart people are on the political spectrum, the more ideological polarization there is among them.
- What Polarization Looks Like
- More Negative Views of The Opposing Party
- Politics Gets Personal
- Polarization’S Consequences
- Polarization in Red and Blue
- About The Study
- About The Data
To chart the progression of ideological thinking, responses to 10 political values questions asked on multiple Pew Research surveys since 1994 have been combined to create a measure of ideological consistency. Over the past twenty years, the number of Americans in the “tails” of this ideological distribution has doubled from 10% to 21%. Meanwhile, ...
Beyond the rise in ideological consistency, another major element in polarization has been the growing contempt that many Republicans and Democrats have for the opposing party. To be sure, disliking the other party is nothing new in politics. But today, these sentiments are broader and deeper than in the recent past. In 1994, hardly a time of amica...
Liberals and conservatives share a passion for politics. They are far more likely than those with more mixed ideological views to discuss politics on a weekly or daily basis. But for many, particularly on the right, those conversations may not include much in the way of opposing opinions. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of consistent conservatives and abou...
When they look at a political system in which little seems to get done, most Americans in the center of the electorate think that Obama and Republican leaders should simply meet each other halfway in addressing the issues facing the nation. Yet an equitable deal is in the eye of the beholder, as both liberals and conservatives define the optimal po...
The signs of political polarization are evident on both ends of the political spectrum, though the trajectory, nature and extent differ from left to right. With Barack Obama in the White House, partisan antipathy is more pronounced among Republicans, especially consistently conservative Republicans. Overall, more Republicans than Democrats see the ...
This is the first report of a multi-part series based on a national survey of 10,013 adults nationwide, conducted January 23-March 16, 2014 by the Pew Research Center. The survey, funded in part through grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and supported by the generosity of Don C. a...
The data in this report are based on two independent survey administrations with the same randomly selected, nationally representative group of respondents. The first is the center’s largest survey on domestic politics to date: the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, a national telephone survey of 10,013 adults, on landlines and cell p...
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Jun 9, 2023 · Students of ideological polarization have focused on the policy distance between political camps that embrace opposing ideas, interests, and values. Students of affective polarization have focused on the emotional distance between political camps that view each other as amoral power players.
Sep 18, 2023 · Differences in thinking styles between individuals relate to political ideology and can exacerbate political polarization. We describe ideological variability related to polarization and review processes related to ideological differences that explain and influence polarization.
