We Can't Even Agree on What Is Tearing Us Apart
Thomas B. Edsall of The New York Times spoke to a number of Political Scholars including Dartmouth's Sean Westwood on "Sorting". Sean Westwood of Dartmouth stressed the importance of "sorting":
[more]Thomas B. Edsall of The New York Times spoke to a number of Political Scholars including Dartmouth's Sean Westwood on "Sorting". Sean Westwood of Dartmouth stressed the importance of "sorting":
[more]A "New York Times" story about the question of support for political violence in the U.S. a year after the Jan 6 insurrection cites a paper co-authored by government professor Sean Westwood that says documented support for such violence is "illusory, a product of ambiguous questions, conflated definitions, and disengaged respondents." Read the full article here!
[more]Research by Dartmouth Professors Brendan Nyhan and Sean Westwood cited in the New York Times. "As Trump rose to the presidency, one explanation that swept political science was the power of polarization, specifically a phenomenon known as affective polarization, but a keen group of scholars now suggests that this approach is inadequate." Here the full essay here.
[more]The new study by Government Professors Michael Herron, Sean Westwood and Dr. David Cottrell shows that Trumps allegations of votor fraud during the 2016 election are mostly false. Link to the original paper can be found here.
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