… A recent study finds American liberals are more willing to grant legitimacy to a conservative-led government than vice-versa. Further, it finds this is not exclusively a Donald Trump-era phenomenon, and has been the case for the past 40-plus years.
“These findings are in contradiction to the notion that liberals and conservatives are equally biased and intolerant of one another,” write Davide Morisi of the University of Vienna and John Jost and Vishal Singh of New York University. “They suggest that conservatives’ ostensibly principled opposition to ‘big government’ may apply more to Democratic than Republican governance.”
Writing in the American Political Science Review, the researchers analyzed data from 48 surveys taken between the early 1970s and 2016. Twenty were conducted as part of the American National Election Studies, while 28 were part of the ongoing General Social Survey. CONT.
Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard