2020
DOI: 10.33774/apsa-2020-l3zwn
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Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on America in One Room

Abstract: This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more than 500 registered voters were brought together from around the country to deliberate in depth over a long weekend on five major issues facing the country. A pre-post control group was also asked the same questions. The deliberators showed large, de-polarizing changes in their policy attitudes and large decreases in affective pola… Show more

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“…While personal engagement has been shown to reduce polarization even on partisan topics in offline settings [19], depolarization in online settings appears to be especially challenging. Attempts at depolarizing extreme opinions held by Web users may lead to undesired and even opposite effects, commonly known as the "backfire effect" [43].…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While personal engagement has been shown to reduce polarization even on partisan topics in offline settings [19], depolarization in online settings appears to be especially challenging. Attempts at depolarizing extreme opinions held by Web users may lead to undesired and even opposite effects, commonly known as the "backfire effect" [43].…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Informational interventions can effectively reduce misperceptions during attitude conflict (Dorison et al, 2019;Lees & Cikara, 2020;Moore-Berg et al, 2020;Ruggeri et al, 2021). Furthermore, the benefits of shifting (miscalibrated) perceptions have also been demonstrated in applied settings (Fishkin et al, 2019). For example, the nonprofit organization Braver Angels brings together liberals and conservatives in a learningfocused environment designed for increasing partisans' insights about each other.…”
Section: Intervening In Conflict By Recalibrating Goal Perceptionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Los estudios sobre la polarización se encuentran en un escenario relevante, hecho que se denota en el alto número de investigaciones recientes existentes, que tratan de explicar cómo funciona la polarización desde diversos enfoques, como la polarización en temas políticos (Fishkin et al 2021), el rol de las emociones en la polarización (Simas, Clifford y Kirkland, 2020) o la polarización afectiva (Iyengar et al 2019, Manson, 2018Iyengar y Westwood, 2015). El presente trabajo recoge una aproximación al fenómeno de la polarización y un breve recorrido por las formas principales de mensuración encontradas en la literatura.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…En cambio, esta falta de entendimiento entre dos grupos que se denota en la polarización afectiva parece no ser sustancial cuando en el centro de la cuestión se sitúan los temas políticos concretos (Fishkin et al, 2021;Miller, 2020;Manson, 2015). Sobre esta cuestión, los estudios revisados, a pesar de que no son concluyentes, explican que parece que, si no se activan las categorías relativas a los partidos políticos, las personas de distinta ideología no están tan en desacuerdo sobre cuestiones políticas (Fishkin et al 2021;Miller, 2020). Fishkin et al (2021) muestran que los procesos deliberativos pueden acercar las posiciones de personas de partidos distintos y, por tanto, reducir la polarización.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified