Political Science

Annenberg Public Policy Center postdoc Matt Motta co-authored an article about politically polarized discourse in the United States. In studying people’s reaction to climate change-related disasters, Motta found that “among Democrats, identifying as a liberal is associated with approximately a 38 percent greater likelihood of believing that climate-change deniers get what they deserve if their region is devastated by a hurricane.”

Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences was cited for his research on the nationalization of U.S. politics, as published in his book The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized.

The Wharton School’s Mauro Guillén joined a conversation on “Radio Times” to discuss political turmoil in Europe and how it might impact the U.S. and the rest of the world.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson discussed the role of tabloids in shaping the 2016 election. “Even as we look at extreme content and say, ‘That’s ridiculous, I dismiss that,’ it changes our sense of where the middle of the distribution of the content is,” she said. “It pushes open our acceptance of extreme content.”