Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2017
Publication Title
The Journal of Politics
Department
Department of Government
Abstract
Partisanship increasingly factors into the behavior of Americans in both political and nonpolitical situations, yet the bounds of partisan prejudice are largely unknown. In this paper, we systematically evaluate the limits of partisan prejudice using a series of five studies situated within a typology of prejudice. We find that partisan prejudice predicts suppression of hostile rhetoric toward one’s own party, avoidance of members of the opposition, and a desire for preferential treatment for one’s own party. While these behaviors may cause incidental or indirect harm to the opposition, we find that even the most affectively polarized—those with the strongest disdain for the opposition—are no more likely to intentionally harm the opposition than those with minimal levels of affective polarization.
DOI
10.1086/688223
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Lelkes, Yphtach and Westwood, Sean J., "The Limits of Partisan Prejudice" (2017). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2357.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2357
