PREVIEW: Who has more diversity of thought: Democrats or Republicans? (Sorry Independents) | S02E04 | Political Reality

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This episode explores the diversity of thought within the Democratic and Republican parties, highlighting various studies and resources on the topic.

FULL EPISODE 1. 🧠 Dias et al. (2025), “American partisans vastly under-estimate the diversity of other partisans’ policy attitudes.”https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/american-partisans-vastly-underestimate-the-diversity-of-other-partisans-policy-attitudes/CD71B9D75D10CFA0A9A07501E1CCD81A#article 2. 👥 A few corporate-focused diversity of thought resources (Scott E. Page was my Ph.D. advisor so bias alert):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_E._Page     📘 1. Page (2007; 2025 second edition), The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies     📗 2. Page (2019), The diversity bonus: How great teams pay off in the knowledge economy     📄 3. Page & Hong (2004), “Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers”    https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0403723101 3. 📊 Democrats tend to be more diverse along many (not all) standard demographic/identity dimensions: Pew…

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Topics covered

• diversity of thought
• political parties
• Democrats
• Republicans
• policy attitudes
• education
• media consumption

Keywords

• diversity
• politics
• Democrats
• Republicans
• policy
• education
• media
• Pew Research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pew Research, Cambridge University Press

Books & works: The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies, The diversity bonus: How great teams pay off in the knowledge economy, Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers

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