Abstract
How pervasive is partisan sorting and polarization over public policies in the American public? We examine whether the barriers of partisan sorting and polarization seen in national politics extend to important local policies that shape economic development. To describe the extent of partisan sorting and polarization over local development policies, we employ conjoint survey experiments in representative surveys of eight US metropolitan areas and a hierarchical modeling strategy for studying heterogeneity across respondents. We find that strong partisans are sorted by party in some of their policy opinions, but rarely polarized. The same voters who disagree about national issues have similar preferences about local development issues suggesting a greater scope for bipartisan problem solving at the local level.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | Political Science Research and Methods |
| Vol/bind | 9 |
| Udgave nummer | 2 |
| ISSN | 2049-8470 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2021 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements. We thank Jim Alt, Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Adam Bonica, Liz Gerber, Jens Hainmueller, Shanto Iyengar, Chris Tausanovitch, and Chris Warshaw for helpful advice on the paper. The survey data for this study were originally collected by bgC3. Scheve, Slaughter, and Jensen worked as paid consultants for bgC3. All the analyses and interpretation in this paper are the work of the authors and were not reviewed by bgC3. The analysis of the bgC3 data was reviewed and approved by Stanford University’s Institutional Review Board. Scheve thanks the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University for support.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Political Science Association.