id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_euaxlwlfcvgjhh44ktbhfu2foa Larry M. Bartels Ethnic antagonism erodes Republicans' commitment to democracy 2020 8 .pdf application/pdf 7705 951 56 Most Republicans in a January 2020 survey agreed that "the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have potential bases of these and other antidemocratic sentiments: partisan affect, enthusiasm for President Trump, political cynicism, economic conservatism, cultural conservatism, and ethnic antagonism. ethnic antagonism on Republicans' commitment to democracy underlines the significance of ethnic conflict in contemporary US politics. ethnic antagonism | political polarization | support for democracy concerns about the political power and claims on government resources of immigrants, African-Americans, and Latinos. However, the structure of the survey items arguably reflects the reality of democratic backsliding, which invites ordinary people to acquiesce in norm violations democratic norms between supporters and opponents of President Trump were "generally small," except on specific issues of Political bases of Republicans' antidemocratic attitudes (ordered probit regression parameter estimates and response antidemocratic attitudes and ethnic antagonism reflects a specific social and political context. ./cache/work_euaxlwlfcvgjhh44ktbhfu2foa.pdf ./txt/work_euaxlwlfcvgjhh44ktbhfu2foa.txt