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Political polarization among Americans has grown rapidly in the last 40 years—more than in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or Germany—a phenomenon possibly due to increased racial division, the rise of partisan cable news and changes in the composition of the Democratic and Republican parties.
That's according to new research co-authored by Jesse Shapiro, a professor of political economy at Brown University. The study, conducted alongside Stanford University economists Levi Boxell and Matthew Gentzkow, was released on Monday, Jan. 20, as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.
In the study, Shapiro and colleagues present the first ever multi-nation evidence on long-term trends in "affective polarization"—a phenomenon in which citizens feel more negatively toward other political parties than toward their own. They found that in the U.S., affective polarization has increased more dramatically since the late 1970s than in the eight other countries they examined—the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden.
"A lot of analysis on polarization is focused on the U.S., so we thought it could be interesting to put the U.S. in context and see whether it is part of a global trend or whether it looks more exceptional," Shapiro said. "We found that the trend in the U.S. is indeed exceptional."
Using data from four decades of public opinion surveys conducted in the nine countries, the researchers used a so-called "feeling thermometer" to rate attitudes on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 reflected no negative feelings toward other parties. They found that in 1978, the average American rated the members of their own political party 27 points higher than members of the other major party. By 2016, Americans were rating their own party 45.9 points higher than the other party, on average. In other words, negative feelings toward members of the other party compared to one's own party increased by an average of 4.8 points per decade.
The researchers found that polarization had also risen in Canada, New Zealand and Switzerland in the last 40 years, but to a lesser extent. In the U.K., Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden, polarization decreased.
More information: Levi Boxell et al, Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization, (2020). DOI: 10.3386/w26669
(Score: 3, Funny) by edIII on Monday January 27 2020, @08:59PM (6 children)
You, Sir, Can burn in Hell.
There is no such thing as "NotTimmys". It's Timmys for ever, or get the fuck out :)
Damn, now I have to go find coffee and a donut......
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday January 27 2020, @09:26PM
Coffee now makes my stomach turn (i used to drink it black and STRONG) and donuts have gluten and or dairy, so Timmy's is out.
I get gluten free/dairy free pizza...................................................
.........................................so yeah......................................................................
..............i suck.
;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:53AM (4 children)
Fuck Timmy's. They're no longer Canadian, they keep shrinking the donuts and changing the box in the hope that people won't realize they're paying more for less, their donuts are parbaked and frozen in a factory in Ontario, then shipped cross-country and nuked on-site (which is why the sugar tastes of being partially crystallized and the donuts have a dense consistency), franchisees have been punished for trying to make bigger donuts for the same price as they used to, so fuck Timmy's.
They're pushing the coffee because they sure as hell can't push the donuts.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday January 28 2020, @05:44AM (3 children)
It's been over 10 years since I've been to one, but my memories of Timmy's are nothing what like you describe. They were damn good donuts when I had them.
Everything gets ruined by greed eventually :(
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @11:59AM
Not everything. The greed itself just gets better under the circumstances.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:46PM (1 child)
The chain got sold, then sold again [wikipedia.org] ... everything is half-baked, frozen, then shipped to the franchisees. And there have been franchisee revolts
Even the original owner said, before he died, that the half-baked microwave donuts taste like crap.
When you freeze foods made with baked flour, the starch molecules undergo a physical change (same reason frozen bread goes stale faster). If you want to eat donuts that are "pre-aged" to taste like they're 2 days old, go to Timmy's. I go to the local store and just buy a dozen honeyglazed for $2. The dogs like it, I like it, and it's never been frozen so it's still fresher the next day than anything from Tim Hortons.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday January 28 2020, @08:28PM
We need a +1 Sad-As-Fuck mod. My experiences were before Timmy's went to hell. Thanks for info, I don't have to bother going to a Timmy's if I'm in Canada again.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.