How Partisan Media Polarize America

Drawing on experiments and survey data, this title shows that Americans who watch partisan programming do become more certain of their beliefs and less willing to weigh the merits of opposing views or to compromise.

About the author

Matthew Levendusky is assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of "The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans," also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Philadelphia.

Summary

Drawing on experiments and survey data, this title shows that Americans who watch partisan programming do become more certain of their beliefs and less willing to weigh the merits of opposing views or to compromise.

Product details

• Authors: Levendusky Matthew, Matthew Levendusky
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 05.09.2013
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science
• EAN: 9780226068961
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06896-1
• Pages: 208
• Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics; Chicago Studies in American Politics; Chicago Studies in American Politics (CHUP)
• Subjects: USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, United States of America, USA, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms