{"id":15706,"date":"2025-12-09T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?p=15706"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:54:31","slug":"bu-political-scientist-asks-does-political-homogeneity-perpetuate-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2025\/12\/09\/bu-political-scientist-asks-does-political-homogeneity-perpetuate-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Political Scientist Asks: Does Political Homogeneity Perpetuate Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055-636x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"wp-image-14415 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055-636x425.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/06\/lede-25-1246-BROWN-055.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>America is famous for its so-called red states and blue states\u2014territories in which most residents reliably vote Republican or Democrat, respectively.<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>But does the political partisanship go deeper than that?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people live in more Democratic or Republican places, they become more likely to register the way their neighbors are registering,\u201d says Jacob Brown, an assistant professor of political science. \u201cAnd then you also see there\u2019s an activating effect: if you\u2019re a steadfast Democrat, and you live around more Democrats, you might participate a little bit more in politics than you would otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s highly polarized political environment, Brown\u2019s research has piqued lots of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span>To read more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/arts-sciences\/2025\/vote-with-thy-neighbor\/\">Arts x Sciences Magazine<\/a> <\/span><span>where this article<\/span><span>\u00a0originally appeared.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is famous for its so-called red states and blue states\u2014territories in which most residents reliably vote Republican or Democrat, respectively.\u00a0But does the political partisanship go deeper than that? \u201cWhen people live in more Democratic or Republican places, they become more likely to register the way their neighbors are registering,\u201d says Jacob Brown, an assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15711,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions\/15711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}