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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Ethnic antagonism erodes Republicans’ commitment to democracy
Beteiligte:
Bartels, Larry M.
Erschienen:
National Academy of Sciences, 2020
Erschienen in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
1091-6490;
0027-8424
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Beschreibung:
<p>Most Republicans in a January 2020 survey agreed that “the traditional Americanway of life is disappearing so fast thatwe may have to use force to save it.” More than 40% agreed that “a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.” (In both cases, most of the rest said they were unsure; only one in four or five disagreed.) I use 127 survey items to measure six potential bases of these and other antidemocratic sentiments: partisan affect, enthusiasm for President Trump, political cynicism, economic conservatism, cultural conservatism, and ethnic antagonism. The strongest predictor by far, for the Republican rank-and-file as a whole and for a variety of subgroups defined by education, locale, sex, and political attitudes, is ethnic antagonism—especially concerns about the political power and claims on government resources of immigrants, African-Americans, and Latinos. The corrosive impact of ethnic antagonism on Republicans’ commitment to democracy underlines the significance of ethnic conflict in contemporary US politics.</p>