Perception, Memory, and Partisan Polarization on the Iraq War

Author: Jacobson, Gary C.

Source: Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Number 1, Spring 2010 , pp. 31-56(26)

Publisher: Academy of Political Science

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Abstract:

Analyzes four surveys designed to investigate partisan polarization on the Iraq war. He finds that modes of motivated reasoning, including motivated skepticism and selective perception, selective memory, and selective exposure, contributed strongly to the emergence of the unusually wide differences of opinion on the war.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2010-03-01

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