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19 lip 2019 · One of the most studied aspects in contemporary political communication research refers to cross-cutting exposure, that is, the disagreement in viewpoints encountered by individuals in their communication environments.
Political cleavage refers to permanent political divisions among citizens, often based on socioeconomic or ethnic-religious differences. In the context of European party systems, these cleavages have historically been more rigid compared to the United States, but have been challenged by new divisions in recent decades.
11 sie 2017 · The results show that cross-cutting debates make people less likely to engage in selective exposure, more likely to feel ambivalent toward their political party, and less likely to rely on party cues when rendering a judgment.
The idea of cross-cutting cleavages and cross-pressure seems intuitively plausible and has been widely discussed. A reviewer of theories of conflict regulation observes that "the hypothesis that politically relevant divisions which cross-cut each other contribute to the mitigation and regulation of
the term cross-cutting networks and refer to the extent of cross-cutting exposure taking place within them. In this study I focus on developing a theory to explain the pro? cess by which social interactions that cross lines of politi? cal difference might affect political participation. Assum-ing for the moment that cross-cutting exposure does, in
Cross-cutting cleavages have long moderated party conflict in American politics and thereby contributed to democratic stability. Over recent decades, however, many of these cross-cutting cleavages have declined, sorting Americans into mutually antagonistic camps.
We test the role of like-minded and cross-cutting political discussion as a facilitator of online and offline political participation and examine the role of strong versus weak network ties. Most prior research on the topic has employed cross-sectional designs that may lead to spurious relationships due to the lack of controlled variables.
