Who is Your Preferred Neighbor? Partisan Residential Preferences and Neighborhood Satisfaction

Hui, Iris

doi:10.1177/1532673x13482573

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“…Independents' perceptions about Democratic (Republican) composition are roughly as accurate as Democrats' (Republicans'). This comports with ndings that independents are more likely to have bipartisan networks (Hui 2013). It also potentially comports with the nding that those less interested in political news-as independents generally are-are less error-prone in their judgments about party composition (see Figure 2 in the paper).…”

Section: Si 12 Sample Demographicssupporting

confidence: 70%

The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences

Ahler

Sood²

2018

The Journal of Politics

362

237

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We document a large and consequential bias in how Americans perceive the major political parties: people considerably overestimate the share of party-stereotypical groups in the parties. For instance, people think that 32% of Democrats are LGBT (6% in reality) and 38% of Republicans earn over $250,000 per year (2%). Experimental data demonstrate that these misperceptions are genuine and party-speci c, not artifacts of expressive responding, innumeracy, or ignorance of base rates. These misperceptions are widely shared, though bias in out-party perceptions is greater. Using both observational and experimental data, we document the consequences of this perceptual bias. Misperceptions about out-party composition are associated with partisan a ect, beliefs about out-party extremity, and in exible partyline voting. When provided information about the actual composition of the out-party, partisans come to see its supporters as less extreme and feel less socially distant from them.

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Section: Si 12 Sample Demographicssupporting

confidence: 70%

The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences

Ahler

Sood²

2018

The Journal of Politics

362

237

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“…Democrats and self-identified liberals are more likely to state a preference for higher population density, "traditional" (non-sprawling) neighborhood design, and racial diversity than Republicans or conservatives (Cho, Gimpel and Hui, 2013;Hui, 2013;Lewis and Baldassare, 2010;Gimpel and Hui, 2015;Pew Research Center, 2014).…”

Section: The Missing Link Between Partisan Preferences and Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Partisans Do Not Sort: The Constraints on Political Segregation

Mummolo

Nall

2017

The Journal of Politics

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108

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Social divisions between American partisans are growing, with Republicans and Democrats exhibiting partisan homophily in a range of seemingly non-political domains. It has been widely claimed that this partisan social divide extends to Americans' decisions about where to live. In two original survey experiments, we show that Democrats are, indeed, more likely than Republicans to prefer living in dense, racially diverse, more Democratic places. Improving on previous studies, we test respondents' stated preferences against their actual moving behavior, showing that even as partisans differ in their residential preferences in ways that should lead to sorting, on average they are not migrating to more politically different zip codes. Using zip-code-level Census and partisanship data on the places where respondents live, we provide a likely explanation for this null effect: by prioritizing common concerns when deciding where to live, Americans forgo the opportunity to move to more politically compatible communities.

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“…Second, a blossoming literature in political science documents how citizens seem to show a preference for contact with copartisans in their day‐to‐day lives. People seem to prefer living in places populated by copartisans (Cho, Gimpel, and Hui ; Hui ; Public Policy Polling ; but see Nall and Mummolo ) and prefer copartisans as mates (Alford et al. ; Huber and Malhotra ; Klofstad, McDermott, and Hatemi ).…”

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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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Who is Your Preferred Neighbor? Partisan Residential Preferences and Neighborhood Satisfaction

Cited by 47 publications

References 58 publications

The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences

The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences

Why Partisans Do Not Sort: The Constraints on Political Segregation

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

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