Does the consumption of ideologically congruent news on social media exacerbate polarization? I estimate the effects of social media news exposure by conducting a large field experiment randomly offer
Abstract: While many news outlets strive for impartiality, two-thirds of Americans perceive a partisan slant in their news and believe that their preferred political news sources often provide only on
These datasets include newly created data for three variables used in the master's thesis: Dalton Polarization (Polarization Index, PI), Country Ideology (Ideology Index, II), and Right-Wing Concentra
Scholars have long been concerned with the implications of income inequality for democracy. Conventional wisdom suggests that high income inequality is associated with political parties taking polariz
