Individuals and Public Opinion Change: The Liberal Rebound, Continued Partisan Divergence and Affective Partisanship 2016–2020

Alan Yang, Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York, Columbia University Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs, New York

American Politics Research

Published online on July 31, 2026

Abstract

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There have been three striking patterns of public opinion change in the United States since the second half of the 20th century. One is the political cycle of overall trends in liberalism and conservatism that James Stimson has adeptly tracked and ...