Partisans without Constraint: Political Polarization and Trends in American Public Opinion.
- Delia Baldassarri, A. Gelman
- Political ScienceAJS; American journal of sociology
- 2008
The findings suggest that opinion changes correspond more to a resorting of party labels among voters than to greater constraint on issue attitudes: since parties are more polarized, they are now better at sorting individuals along ideological lines.
Partisans without Constraint: Political Polarization and Trends in American Public Opinion1
- Delia Baldassarri, A. Gelman
- Political ScienceAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 28 January 2008
Public opinion polarization is here conceived as a process of alignment along multiple lines of potential disagreement and measured as growing constraint in individuals' preferences. Using NES data…
Dynamics of Political Polarization
- Delia Baldassarri, P. Bearman
- Economics
- 1 October 2007
This article accounts for two puzzling paradoxes. The first paradox is the simultaneous absence and presence of attitude polarization—the fact that global attitude polarization is relatively rare,…
Love Thy Neighbor? Ethnoracial Diversity and Trust Reexamined1
- Maria Abascal, Delia Baldassarri
- SociologyAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 November 2015
This article reproduces the analysis of Putnam and shows that the association between diversity and self-reported trust is a compositional artifact attributable to residential sorting: nonwhites report lower trust and are overrepresented in heterogeneous communities.
Centralized sanctioning and legitimate authority promote cooperation in humans
- Delia Baldassarri, Guy Grossman
- EconomicsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 20 June 2011
This research provides evidence of the effectiveness of centralized sanctioning and demonstrates the causal effect of legitimacy on cooperation: participants are more responsive to the authority of an elected monitor than a randomly chosen monitor.
Neither Ideologues nor Agnostics: Alternative Voters’ Belief System in an Age of Partisan Politics1
- Delia Baldassarri, Amir Goldberg
- SociologyAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 July 2014
Investigating systematic heterogeneity in the organization of political attitudes using relational class analysis, a graph-based method for detecting multiple patterns of opinion in survey data, shows that while ideologues have gone through a process of issue alignment, alternatives have grown increasingly apart from the political agendas of both parties.
The Integrative Power of Civic Networks1
- Delia Baldassarri, M. Diani
- SociologyAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 November 2007
This article analyzes integrative dynamics within civil society by looking at civic networks—the web of collaborative ties between participatory associations acting on behalf of public and collective…
The Impact of Elections on Cooperation: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda.
- Guy Grossman, Delia Baldassarri
- EconomicsAmerican Journal of Political Science
- 1 October 2012
It is shown that deference to authority in the controlled setting predicts cooperative behavior in the farmers' natural environment, in which they face a similar social dilemma.
The Effect of Group Attachment and Social Position on Prosocial Behavior. Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
- Delia Baldassarri, Guy Grossman
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 26 March 2013
The article identifies two social-structural dimensions along which people's generosity varies systematically: group attachment and social position, and shows that occupying a formal position in an organization or community leads to greater generosity toward in-group members.
Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany’s Eastern Regions
- Max Schaub, Johanna Gereke, Delia Baldassarri
- Political Science
- 13 September 2020
Does local exposure to refugees increase right-wing support? This paper studies a case uniquely suited to address this question: the allocation of refugees to the rural hinterlands of eastern Germany…
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