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Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States.

Over the period from the heyday of McCarthyism to the present, the percentage of the American people not feeling free to express their views has tripled. In 2020, more than four in ten people engaged in self-censorship. Our analyses of over-time and cross-sectional variability suggest that, first, s...

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Published in:Political Science Quarterly (Oxford University Press / USA) Vol. 138; no. 3; pp. 361 - 377
Main Authors: Gibson, James L, Sutherland, Joseph L
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Fall2023
Subjects:
Polarization (Social sciences)
Civil rights
Political correctness
McCarthyism
Self-censorship
Conservatives
Liberals
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