A Cross-Cutting Calm How Social Sorting Drives Affective Polarization

By Lilliana Mason. 2016

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Affective Polarization and Ideological Sorting: A Reciprocal, Albeit Weak, Relationship (2018, background): “For instance, Mason (2016) and Mason and Wronski (2018) argue that since few political and social identities cut across both parties, partisans no longer see themselves as having much in common with the other side.”
The Strengthening of Partisan Affect (2018, background): “As we pointed out at the outset, the American parties have become well “sorted” over the past three decades (Green, 2005; Mangum, 2013; Mason, 2016).”
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization (2019, background): “…when paired with recent evidence regarding the increased nature of “us versus them” politics (Mason 2015), increased sorting of parties (Levendusky 2009), and the role of group identity in affective polarization (Iyengar, Sood, and Lelkes 2012; Mason 2016), these results seem quite concerning.”
Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior (2018, background): “…allegiances make it easier for ordinary citizens to vote their preferences, but sorting and partisanship also encourage team-mindedness and social polarization (e.g. Garrett et al., 2014; Mason, 2015; Mason, 2016), inhibiting cooperation between people with different values and convictions.”
All the News That’s Fit to Click: The Economics of Clickbait Media (2019, background): “A complementary strand of scholarship, most famously advanced by Campbell, Converse, Miller, and Donald (1960) and seeing renewed interest with Green, Palmquist, and Schickler (2002), conceptualizes partisanship as a social identity (Iyengar, Sood, & Lelkes, 2012; Mason, 2016).”
Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization (2020, neutral): “For example, an existing literature relates mass polarization to the extent to which a person’s political party is aligned with other aspects of the person’s identity, such as their race or religion (Mason, 2016, 2018; Mason & Wronski, 2018).”