ABSTRACT The notion that a healthy democracy requires a public who discusses politics is based on the assumption that discussions expose people to perspective that differ from their own. That people generally prefer to avoid political disagreements, however, suggests that people may withhold their opinions during such encounters. This work couples survey responses and a content analysis of sixty political discussions from a nationally representative sample to investigate the relationships among political opinion expression, diversity, and disagreement and how those variables function across liberal, conservative, and politically heterogeneous groups. Findings challenge the extent to which disagreement dampens political opinion expression and whether ideologically mixed groups expose people to more diverse views than those that are politically homogeneous.

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自由派、保守派和混合群体的多样性、分歧和表达

摘要 健康的民主需要公众讨论政治的观点是基于这样的假设，即讨论让人们接触到与他们自己不同的观点。然而，人们通常更愿意避免政治分歧，这表明人们可能会在此类遭遇中隐瞒自己的意见。这项工作结合了对来自全国代表性样本的 60 场政治讨论的调查答复和内容分析，以调查政治观点表达、多样性和分歧之间的关系，以及这些变量如何在自由派、保守派和政治异质群体中发挥作用。