Ideological and Partisan Bias in the Canadian Public
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6239332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Merkley (0000-0001-7647-9650, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-291 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423921000147 |
| OpenAlex | W3160393687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 69 |
Partisan and affective polarization should have observable consequences in Canada, such as bias in political information search and processing. This article presents the results of three studies that test for partisan and ideological bias using the Digital Democracy Project's study of the 2019 Canadian election. Study 1 uses a conjoint experiment where respondents choose from pairs of hypothetical news stories where the slant of the source and headline are both randomized. Study 2 tests for partisan-motivated responsiveness to elite cues with a policy vignette that manipulates the presence of party elite cues and a motivational prime. Study 3 requires respondents to solve a randomly assigned numeracy task that is either political or nonpolitical in nature. Results suggest that Canadians (1) select politically congenial information, though not sources of such information, (2) follow elite cues when partisan motivation is primed and (3) evaluate evidence in ways that are biased by their ideological beliefs
Advertising · Business · Democracy · Economics · Elite · Headline · Ideology · Media bias · Motivated reasoning · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public opinion · Status quo bias · Vignette · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Voting Behaviour in Canada
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Neighboring Groups and Political Attacks
Affective polarization and institutional confidence in Canada
Thinking Ideologically
Party or Policy? The Role of Policy Partisanship in Voter Decision-Making
Mapping the Canadian Culture War
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization
Linguistic threat
Instrumentalization of National Identity in Canada’s Official Languages
The Incumbency Advantage in Canadian Elections
Affective Polarization in the Canadian Party System, 1988–2021
The Rationalizing Voter
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
The Partisan Sort
Post-Broadcast Democracy
At Least Bias Is Bipartisan
Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News
Numeracy and Decision Making
Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning
Conjoint Survey Experiments
Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada
The effects of mass communication
The Disappearing Center
Red Media, Blue Media
The Mutual Reinforcement of Media Selectivity and Effects
The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation
Polarization and Partisan Selective Exposure
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics
Individual Differences in Numeracy and Cognitive Reflection, with Implications for Biases and Fallacies in Probability Judgment
Self-regulation and selective exposure
Reversing the Causal Arrow
The nature of belief systems in mass publics (1964)
Continental Divide
Understanding Partisan Cue Receptivity
Polarization in the American Public
Mass Polarization
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization
Political Depolarization in German Public Opinion, 1980–2010
Citizens' Perceptions of Ideological Bias in Research on Public Policy Controversies
Beyond the Running Tally
Measuring Party Identification
Who Toes the Party Line? Cues, Values, and Individual Differences
Partisanship and Preference Formation
The Influence of Partisan Motivated Reasoning on Public Opinion
Media Use and Political Predispositions
The Microfoundations of Mass Polarization
Has the British Public Depolarized Along With Political Elites? An American Perspective on British Public Opinion
Can Canadians Take a Hint? The (In)Effectiveness of Party Labels as Information Shortcuts in Canada
Party Identification
Growing Apart? Partisan Sorting in Canada, 1992–2015
Affective Polarization in the Canadian Party System, 1988–2021
Media and Political Polarization
Party Identification
(Almost) Everything in Moderation
Source Cues and Policy Approval
Polarizing Cues
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
Party Identification Measures in the Anglo-American Democracies
Subconstituency Reactions to Elite Depolarization in the Netherlands
Party Cues in the News
Party Over Policy
Motivated skepticism
Cultural cognition of scientific consensus
Political Polarization in the American Public
Affect, Not Ideology
The case for motivated reasoning
How Many People Live in Political Bubbles on Social Media? Evidence From Linked Survey and Twitter Data
Partisan Instability in Canada
Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate
Partisans without Constraint
More than Ideology
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |