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Partisanship in a Social Setting

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  • Samara Klar

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No factor appears more powerful in explaining how individuals evaluate political information and form political preferences than partisanship. Yet, virtually all work on the effects of partisanship on preference formation neglects the crucial role of social settings. In this study, I examine how social settings can fundamentally change the influence of partisanship on preferences. I demonstrate that, in fact, social settings exert an independent influence over preference formation—one that is even larger than the influence of partisan ambivalence. The central implication of these findings is that, going forward, we cannot fully explore how citizens apply their partisanship in evaluating political information without also accounting for the social settings in which individuals find themselves.

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  • Samara Klar, 2014. "Partisanship in a Social Setting," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 58(3), pages 687-704, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:amposc:v:58:y:2014:i:3:p:687-704
    DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12087
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    1. Erik Peterson & Shanto Iyengar, 2021. "Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(1), pages 133-147, January.
    2. Paul Marx, 2019. "Should we study political behaviour as rituals? Towards a general micro theory of politics in everyday life," Rationality and Society, , vol. 31(3), pages 313-336, August.
    3. Arnaud Wolff, 2022. "The Signaling Value of Social Identity," Working Papers of BETA 2022-15, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.
    4. Cécile Aubert & Huihui Ding, 2022. "Voter conformism and inefficient policies," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 59(1), pages 207-249, July.
    5. Paweł Kamiński & Marta Kołczyńska & Bogdan W. Mach, 2022. "Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 103(5), pages 1155-1167, September.
    6. Corona, Joshua, 2024. "A Fly-on-the-Wall Study: Measuring Behavior in Social Landscapes," OSF Preprints 4jb2p, Center for Open Science.
    7. W. Ben McCartney & John Orellana & Calvin Zhang, 2021. "“Sort Selling”: Political Polarization and Residential Choice," Working Papers 21-14, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
    8. James N Druckman & Mauro Gilli & Samara Klar & Joshua Robison, 2014. "The Role of Social Context in Shaping Student-Athlete Opinions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(12), pages 1-14, December.

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