Does Politics Influence Hiring? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Gift, Karen; Gift, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s11109-014-9286-0

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“…First, although not dispositive, our results are consistent with other research that finds partisanship can behave like a social identity, “spilling over” into behaviors other than vote choice (e.g., Iyengar, Sood, and Lelkes ; Iyenger and Westwood ; Klofstad, McDermott, and Hatemi ; Mason ). The behavioral patterns we found do not seem to represent mere cheap talk on surveys (e.g., Bullock et al 2013), but are consistent with the view that partisanship can affect ancillary behavior (e.g., Gerber and Huber ; Gift and Gift ). To be sure, our results cannot definitively establish what aspect of partisanship leads Americans to prefer contacting copartisans.…”

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“…Along with work showing that the citizens most likely to contact their representatives tend to have the most ideologically orthodox views (Verba, Schlozman, and Brady ), our results highlight how a persistent bias in how citizens express their views could reinforce elite polarization. The findings also add to a growing literature suggesting that partisanship exhibits traits similar to other social identities (e.g., Gift and Gift ; Iyenger and Westwood ).…”

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Preaching to the Choir: Americans Prefer Communicating to Copartisan Elected Officials

Broockman¹,

Ryan

2015

American J Political Sci

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Past work suggests that partisan attachments isolate citizens from encountering elite messages contrary to their points of view. Here, we present evidence that partisan attachments not only serve to filter the information citizens receive from political elites; they also work in the other direction, isolating politicians from encountering potentially contrary perspectives from citizens. In particular, we hypothesized that Americans prefer expressing their opinions to politicians who share their party identification and avoid contacting outpartisan politicians. Three studies-drawing on a mixture of observational, field experimental, and natural experimental approaches-support this hypothesis: Citizens prefer to "preach to the choir," contacting legislators of the same partisan stripe. In light of evidence that contact from citizens powerfully affects politicians' stances and priorities, these findings suggest a feedback loop that might aggravate political polarization and help explain how politicians of different parties could develop different perceptions of the same constituencies.

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Preaching to the Choir: Americans Prefer Communicating to Copartisan Elected Officials

Broockman¹,

Ryan

2015

American J Political Sci

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“…If people harbor negative feelings toward members of the opposite party, then they may perform low‐quality work due to lower motivation. This need not be due to a deliberate attempt at sabotage; rather, it may be an unconscious process of shirking in response to an undesired boss (Gift and Gift )…”

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The Economic Consequences of Partisanship in a Polarized Era

McConnell¹,

Margalit

Malhotra³

et al. 2017

American J Political Sci

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sanship shapes economic behavior. We do so experimentally, studying whether partisan considerations affect people's economic behavior in a range of contexts, all where clear pecuniary or professional gains are at stake.Such questions are especially timely in the contemporary American case, given both the large literature on polarization and the divisive 2016 presidential election. Much of this research focuses on whether the ideological distance between the parties, both at the mass and elite levels, has increased over time (Fiorina and Abrams 2008). Yet less research has examined the implications of partisanship in a polarized era. Perhaps the most relevant and novel set of findings in this respect are those documenting a rise in affective polarization, the notion

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“…, economic games(Carlin & Love, 2018;Iyengar & Westwood, 2015; Tappin & McKay, in press;Westwood, Iyengar, Walgrave, Leonisio, Miller, & Strijbis, 2018), real-life economic decisions (e.g., hiring;Gift & Gift, 2015;McConnell, Margalit, Malhotra, & Levendusky, 2018;Michelitch, 2015), measures of subtle and blatant dehumanization (Casses, in press), and endorsements of partisan violence and terrorism (although absolute rates are relatively low;Kalmoe & Mason, 2019). Evidence for affective polarization has been found in countries outside of North America, including Belgium, the…”

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Worldview conflict and prejudice

Brandt

Crawford

2020

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

108

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Does Politics Influence Hiring? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Cited by 172 publications

References 27 publications

Preaching to the Choir: Americans Prefer Communicating to Copartisan Elected Officials

Preaching to the Choir: Americans Prefer Communicating to Copartisan Elected Officials

The Economic Consequences of Partisanship in a Polarized Era

Worldview conflict and prejudice

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