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This headline--As Biden Plans Transition, Republicans Decline to Recognize His Election"--would specify *Republican leaders* (which is what the article is about)
Conflating elites w/ ordinary voters--esp. in this kind of context--is very problematic. 1/n https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/republicans-trump-concede-election.html?smid=tw-share
Conflating elites w/ ordinary voters--esp. in this kind of context--is very problematic. 1/n https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/republicans-trump-concede-election.html?smid=tw-share
W/ @ykrupnikov @m_levendusky @ryanbq & Druckman, we find Americans misperceive how ideologically extreme & politically active out-partisans are. (Most are moderate and not obsessed w/ politics!)
Correcting these misperceptions reduces polarization. 2/n
https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2019/wp-19-25.pdf
Correcting these misperceptions reduces polarization. 2/n
https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2019/wp-19-25.pdf
And a new paper by @JKingzette shows that Americans feel substantially warmer toward regular people than toward political elites, who people are generally imagining when they tell you how they feel about out-party members. 3/n https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/who-do-you-loathe-feelings-toward-politicians-vs-ordinary-people-in-the-opposing-party/4A19D69433C8FED1AE3EBA15633C9649
And a great paper by @m_levendusky and @namalhotra shows that Americans overestimate disagreement between partisans and these misperceptions increase negative feelings toward one another. 4/n
https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/80/S1/378/2223197
https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/80/S1/378/2223197
So it's actually really important that media are careful when describing political conflict. If it's primarily occurring at the elite level, say so. Misperceptions of our fellow citizens can have big consequences. 5/5
OK so that first typo-ridden tweet in this thread should say: I wish this headline would specify *Republican* leaders..
Tweeting before coffee is a mistake and that's the real take-away here.
Tweeting before coffee is a mistake and that's the real take-away here.
