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dc.contributor.authorLee, N
dc.contributor.authorNyhan, B
dc.contributor.authorReifler, J
dc.contributor.authorFlynn, DJ
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-18T12:56:16Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-24
dc.description.abstractStudies of the American public demonstrate that partisans often diverge not only on questions of opinion but also on matters of fact. However, little is known about partisan divergence in factual beliefs among the government officials who make real policy decisions, or how it compares to belief polarization among the public. This letter describes the first systematic comparison of factual belief polarization between the public and government officials, which we conducted using a paired survey approach. The results indicate that political elites are consistently more accurately informed than the public across a wide range of politically contentious facts. However, this increase in accuracy does not translate into reduced factual belief polarization. These findings demonstrate that a more informed political elite does not necessarily mitigate partisan factual disagreement in policy making.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Union Horizon 2020en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipStanford University, Laboratory for the Study of American Valuesen_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 24 November 2020en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S000712342000037X
dc.identifier.grantnumber682758en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/124799
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://dataverse.harvard.ed/atavers/JPolSen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  en_GB
dc.subjectbelief polarizationen_GB
dc.subjectmisperceptionsen_GB
dc.subjectelite opinionen_GB
dc.titleMore Accurate, but No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Publicen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2021-02-18T12:56:16Z
dc.identifier.issn0007-1234
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.descriptionData availability statement: Data replication sets are available at https://dataverse.harvard.ed/atavers/JPolSen_GB
dc.identifier.journalBritish Journal of Political Scienceen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-06-23
exeter.funder::European Commissionen_GB
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-11-24
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2021-02-18T12:54:13Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2021-02-18T12:56:27Z
refterms.panelCen_GB


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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  
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