Political polarization

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type , Research , Preprint 01 May 2007 Sweden English Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesJournal:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 104, pages 7,351-7,356 (issn: 0027-8424, eissn: 1091-6490,

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Authors: Dixit, Avinash; Weibull, Jörgen;

doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702071104

pmid: 17452633

pmc: PMC1863477

handle: 10419/56310

Political polarization

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Abstract

Failures of government policies often provoke opposite reactions from citizens; some call for a reversal of the policy, whereas others favor its continuation in stronger form. We offer an explanation of such polarization, based on a natural bimodality of preferences in political and economic contexts and consistent with Bayesian rationality.

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Sweden

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Departement of Economics
United States
Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (Stockholm School of Economics)
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Stockholm School of Economics
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College of New Jersey
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Department of Economics
Indonesia

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Keywords

information, D72, distinct priors, Humans, D74, Probability, polarization, ddc:330, Politics, D81, Staatliche Information, D82, Verhaltensökonomik, voting, Beschränkte Rationalität, polarization; voting; information, Politische Kultur, Theorie, jel: jel:D81, jel: jel:D82, jel: jel:D74, jel: jel:D72

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