Essays on partisan polarization
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation studies the role of partisanship in American's non-political behaviors. I combine survey, web search, and behavioral data to examine the role of a change in the party of the presidency in partisans' health and purchasing behaviors. In two of the three cases studied, Americans whose party lost the presidency exhibited significant differences in their behaviors before and after the election.I used data from the George W Bush and Barack Obama administration to examine partisan shift in vaccination behavior, and found that presidential out-partisans became less likely to view vaccines as safe and less likely to vaccinate their children after their party lost an election. Furthermore, these differences were significantly mediated by partisans' level of government trust, suggesting that loss of trust in the federal government accounts for shift is partisan vaccination rates. Next, I used web search and DMV car registration data to examine partisan shifts in large purchases (cars, houses, and the stock market) after the 2016 election. I find that Democrats became less likely to search for cars and houses, and less likely to register new cars after their party lost the 2016 election. Finally, I examine web searches for mental health related terms among Democrats, Republicans, English-only searchers, and Spanish-speaking searchers in the wake of the 2016 election. While there were significant and sustained increases in searches for terms relating to mental distress among the Spanish-speaking searchers, there were no changes in searches among Democrats, even though their party had just lost the election. These findings suggest that while partisanship has significant and far-reaching implications on Americans' political behaviors, some reported partisan differences in behavior are the result of expressive reporting.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Krupenkin, Maria Timofei |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Fiorina, Morris P |
| Thesis advisor | Tomz, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Fiorina, Morris P |
| Degree committee member | Tomz, Michael |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Maria Timofei Krupenkin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Maria Timofei Krupenkin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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