Jeremy C. Pope’s research while affiliated with Brigham Young University and other places

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Publications (5)


The Ideological Asymmetry of White Identity
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September 2024

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The Journal of Politics

Kesley Townsend

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Kelsey Eyre

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Heather Walker

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Jeremy C. Pope

The Crucial Role of Race in Twenty-First Century US Political Realignment

February 2024

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Public Opinion Quarterly

Traditional realignment theory has fallen out of fashion among political scientists, yet the popular press talk about political realignments with great regularity. However, in this research note we show that political science should reconsider realignment theory because over the last decade American politics has dramatically realigned—but only for white Americans. Specifically, we demonstrate that income has gone from a highly polarizing factor to one in which there is little to no polarization at all, while at the same time education polarization has increased dramatically to become the prominent demographic cleavage in the white segment of the electorate. However, no such realignment has occurred among Black or Latino voters. These differences across racial groups show how it is essential to consider race in theories of realignment, particularly because of the different experiences across racial groups. Realignment theory is quite viable in the twenty-first century, but the lens of race is the key to seeing the white realignment.


Does issue importance attenuate partisan cue-taking?

August 2023

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5 Citations

Political Science Research and Methods

Are cues from party leaders so important that they can cause individuals to change their own issue positions to align with the party's position? Recent work on the importance of party cues suggests they do, especially given the literature on partisanship as a strong and persistent group identity. However, in this paper we test the limits of those partisan cues. Using a unique two-wave panel survey design we find that the effect of party cues is moderated by the prior level of importance individuals place on an issue. We find that when a person believes an issue area to be more important, party cues are less likely to move that citizen's position, particularly when the cue goes against partisan ideological norms. Our results show evidence that an individual's own issue positions—at least the important ones—can be resilient in the face of party cues.


Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States?

September 2022

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4 Citations

Public Opinion Quarterly

Polarization and participation are often connected in the political science literature, though sometimes the causality runs participation to polarization and sometimes the causality runs in the reverse direction. In some accounts there is an expectation that increasing participation and increasing polarization generate an ongoing spiral effect. In this paper we evaluate the over-time relationships between polarization and participation by assessing evidence in existing panel and aggregate data. We find that people with more extreme attitudes are more likely to participate in politics. However, only one particular form of participation—persuading others—appears to predict later levels of polarization. Therefore, only persuasion has the necessary correlation and temporal ordering for a feedback loop with more extreme ideology. The implication is that the discipline should pay more attention to interpersonal persuasion as a form of participation in American politics.


Groups, Behaviors, and Issues as Cues of Partisan Attachments in the Public

June 2022

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American Politics Research

What factors do people most associate with the partisan identity of others: group identity, political issue positions, or social behaviors? In this research note, we report the results of a conjoint experiment in which we test the predictive power of descriptive identities against other attributes such as social behaviors and issue positions. We find that when presented with a randomized biography to predict partisanship, people rely on issue positions over descriptive group identities or behaviors. Most issues outperform group affiliations and behaviors, with sexual orientation as the partial exception. We then compared these results to the correlation between the same factors in respondents’ own biographies and their own partisan identification. We find that political issues are far less important to people’s own partisan affiliations, while group identity is more predictive. We conclude that an understanding or perception of ideological concepts and their association with the political parties in others should be distinguished from adoption of such concepts by individuals themselves.

Citations (3)


... We begin by considering those variables that have a consistent relationship with illiberal attitudes across the three different models. First, consistent with recent work that had found education to be an important determinant of political views and behavior (Barber and Pope 2023;Igielnik et al. 2021;Pew Research Center 2018), in all three regression models, individuals with more education are less likely to espouse illiberal attitudes. We also find a strong relationship between illiberal attitudes and partisanship in each of the three indices of illiberal attitudes. ...

Reference:

Illiberal attitudes among US state legislative candidates
The Crucial Role of Race in Twenty-First Century US Political Realignment
  • Citing Article
  • February 2024

Public Opinion Quarterly

... For an attitude to be personally important means "to care passionately about it and to be deeply concerned about it" (Boninger et al., 1995, 62). Personally important attitudes tend to be more stable over time (Krosnick, 1988a), more impactful on vote choice (Krosnick, 1988b), more resistant to partisan cues (Barber & Pope, 2023), and people seek out and store more information about personally important topics (Holbrook et al., 2005). Thus, if personally important attitudes are more resistant to change and more likely to influence other attitudes and behaviors, then personal importance may also contribute to a greater willingness to support political violence. ...

Does issue importance attenuate partisan cue-taking?
  • Citing Article
  • August 2023

Political Science Research and Methods