Americans, Not Partisans: Can Priming American National Identity Reduce Affective Polarization?

By Matthew Levendusky. Journal of Politics, 2018

347 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Yanna Krupnikov
2. Ro’ee Levy
3. Samara Klar
4. John Ryan
5. James N. Druckman
6. Matthew Levendusky

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yanna Krupnikov
2. Ro’ee Levy
3. Samara Klar
4. John Ryan
5. James N. Druckman
6. Matthew Levendusky
7. Kevin Arceneaux
8. Thomas J. Leeper

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Ro’ee Levy
2. James N. Druckman

Citations in the corpus

• How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “The latter is a more neutral entity; also, using the nation as a whole primes national identity, which should mute the effects of partisanship (Levendusky 2018).”
• Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2020, background): “In 2019, 52 percent of Americans reported getting at least some of their news on Facebook, more than the share of Americans getting news on all other social media platforms combined.7 While this study focuses on the United States, understanding Facebook’s influence has global implications.”