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How many X's do you know'' surveys - Columbia University

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Overview<br />

Social and political polarization<br />

Background: how <strong>many</strong> people <strong>do</strong> <strong>you</strong> know?<br />

Learning from “<strong>How</strong> <strong>many</strong> X’s <strong>do</strong> <strong>you</strong> know” <strong>surveys</strong><br />

Next<br />

Social polarization<br />

Political polarization<br />

Measurement of polarization<br />

Example analysis using survey data<br />

Past work studying polarization using <strong>surveys</strong><br />

◮ Lots and lots has been <strong>do</strong>ne; this is an incomplete review<br />

◮ Social polarization, social capital:<br />

◮ Census data on family characteristics (Cherlin, Mayer, Held,<br />

. . . )<br />

◮ GSS, NES questions on values (White, Brooks, . . . )<br />

◮ Community <strong>surveys</strong> (Putnam, . . . )<br />

◮<br />

General Social Survey: questions about <strong>you</strong>r close contacts<br />

(DiMaggio, . . . )<br />

◮ Political polarization<br />

◮ Congressional votes (McCarty, Poole, Rosenthal, . . . )<br />

◮ NES and commercial polls (Page and Shapiro, Bafumi, . . . )<br />

Gelman, DiPrete, Salganik, Teitler, Zheng<br />

Studying polarization using <strong>surveys</strong>

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