Zachary Hertz

Zachary Hertz

Graduate student in political science.

Looking at Trends in CA-11

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Data sources: https://statewidedatabase.org/d20/g22.html Shapefiles: https://statewidedatabase.org/d20/g22_geo_conv.html CD boundaries: https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Maps/J22_NewCongressionalDistrictMap.pdf

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How Sensitive are Partisans to Out-Party Cues?

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A recent working paper by Anthony Fowler and William Howell finds that partisans update their policy beliefs in response to both in- and out-party elite cues. I found the paper especially notable for a few reasons: its findings are well-supported yet somewhat incongrous with both previous research and the oft-cited1 expression that “partisanship is a hell of a drug”.2 Given the paper’s novelty and relevance to my own research interests, I ran an extension and replication in May 2021. Do partisans update their policy beliefs in response to elite cues from both in-party and out-party leaders?

  1. See, for example, its frequent use by political scientists on Twitter. ↩

  2. One which seems to have been created and popularized by Brendan Nyhan and Stephen Miller. ↩