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Introduction: Volume 20 Issue 1: Public Opinion in America

Introduction: Volume 20 Issue 1: Public Opinion in America This issue of The Forum is dedicated to the question of what, and how, citizens think about politics in America today. The state of public opinion is a subject of perpetual fascination for political practitioners and observers alike. But while there is broad agreement that Americans have become increasingly divided over political matters in recent years, the nature and boundaries of those divisions remain a topic of unending investigation and discussion.In this special issue, a set of experts in the field contribute a series of studies that collectively offer a valuable portrait of the American public in the 2020s. The image that emerges from this research contains clarity, but also complexity. Partisanship, polarization, and social tensions are important and even foundational components of today’s mass politics. But overly simplistic accounts of the current era can also exaggerate the degree of political conflict that now exists in the mass public, ignoring evidence of enduring complication and nuance.As the articles in this issue demonstrate, citizens indeed disagree sharply about a number of contemporary issues—from the roots of economic inequality to the fairness of the vote-counting in the last presidential election. These differences of opinion increasingly follow familiar lines of partisanship and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Forum de Gruyter

Introduction: Volume 20 Issue 1: Public Opinion in America

The Forum , Volume 20 (1): 3 – Apr 1, 2022
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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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1540-8884
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10.1515/for-2022-2051
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This issue of The Forum is dedicated to the question of what, and how, citizens think about politics in America today. The state of public opinion is a subject of perpetual fascination for political practitioners and observers alike. But while there is broad agreement that Americans have become increasingly divided over political matters in recent years, the nature and boundaries of those divisions remain a topic of unending investigation and discussion.In this special issue, a set of experts in the field contribute a series of studies that collectively offer a valuable portrait of the American public in the 2020s. The image that emerges from this research contains clarity, but also complexity. Partisanship, polarization, and social tensions are important and even foundational components of today’s mass politics. But overly simplistic accounts of the current era can also exaggerate the degree of political conflict that now exists in the mass public, ignoring evidence of enduring complication and nuance.As the articles in this issue demonstrate, citizens indeed disagree sharply about a number of contemporary issues—from the roots of economic inequality to the fairness of the vote-counting in the last presidential election. These differences of opinion increasingly follow familiar lines of partisanship and

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Published: Apr 1, 2022

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