New open access paper at @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @jsievert.bsky.social: we find that messages oriented towards national politics polarize people's views and evaluations of candidates and that messages stressing local matters sometimes do the opposite.
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A growing body of research documents the increased importance of national issues and politics for vote choice and election outcomes in subnational elections. The extant literature identifies two di...
