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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2008023117
	America's electorate is increasingly polarized along partisan lines about voting by mail during the COVID-19 crisis
	Lockhart M.; Hill S.J.; Merolla J.; Romero M.; Kousser T.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0027-8424
起始页码	24640
结束页码	24642
卷号	117 期号:40
英文摘要	Are voters as polarized as political leaders when it comes to their preferences about how to cast their ballots in November 2020 and their policy positions on how elections should be run in light of the COVID-19 outbreak? Prior research has shown little party divide on voting by mail, with nearly equal percentages of voters in both parties choosing to vote this way where it is an option. Has a divide opened up this year in how voters aligned with the Democratic and Republican parties prefer to cast a ballot? We address these questions with two nationally diverse, online surveys fielded from April 8 to 10 and June 11 to 13, of 5,612 and 5,818 eligible voters, respectively, with an embedded experiment providing treated respondents with scientific projections about the COVID-19 outbreak. We find a nearly 10 percentage point difference between Democrats and Republicans in their preference for voting by mail in April, which had doubled in size to nearly 20 percentage points in June. This partisan gap is wider still for those exposed to scientific projections about the pandemic. We also find that support for national legislation requiring states to offer no-excuse absentee ballots has emerged as an increasingly polarized issue. © 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	COVID-19; Elections; Governance; Partisanship
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Coronavirus infection; human; pandemic; politics; psychology; United States; virus pneumonia; Coronavirus Infections; Humans; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Politics; United States
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/160782
作者单位	Lockhart, M., Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, United States; Hill, S.J., Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, United States; Merolla, J., Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, United States; Romero, M., Center for Inclusive Democracy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States; Kousser, T., Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lockhart M.,Hill S.J.,Merolla J.,et al. America's electorate is increasingly polarized along partisan lines about voting by mail during the COVID-19 crisis[J],2020,117(40).
APA	Lockhart M.,Hill S.J.,Merolla J.,Romero M.,&Kousser T..(2020).America's electorate is increasingly polarized along partisan lines about voting by mail during the COVID-19 crisis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,117(40).
MLA	Lockhart M.,et al."America's electorate is increasingly polarized along partisan lines about voting by mail during the COVID-19 crisis".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117.40(2020).