Abstract
AbstractThis chapter provides a test of how elite polarization influences individual-level political behavior. The chapter begins with a discussion of how elite polarization conditions how citizens think about politics and then moves on to discuss how elite polarization is measured. It then performs an analysis interacting a measure of elite polarization with individual-level policy orientations. It finds that policy orientations become stronger predictors of partisanship, vote choice, and hostility toward opposing partisans as elite polarization increases. The chapter includes an additional set of tests that shows individuals are sensitive to changes in the level of elite polarization in addition to the absolute level. It concludes with a discussion of how political sophistication moderates the relationship between elite polarization and individual-level policy orientations.
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