Ending Polarization: The Good News About the Culture Wars

Differences in cultural outlooks divide Americans politically not because culture endows Americans with different ends but because culture influences how Americans evaluate the efficacy of alternative means for achieving collective prosperity and security. Moreover, the tendency of culture to interfere with common apprehension of mutually advantageous policies can be neutralized through various devices, including deliberation.

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The "Wildavsky Heuristic": The Cultural Orientation of Mass Political Opinion

Cultural worldviews determine political attitudes, not because ordinary citizens are moral zealots but because they are cognitive misers who naturally rely on cultural cues to orient their policy positions.

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