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Nathan P. Kalmoe

Nathan P. Kalmoe

Political scientist

Sep 24, 2026

16:06
So could you dig into that a little bit?
16:09
Yeah, there's a longstanding debate in political science about the nature of partisanship.
16:15
And you could always say, well, some people do say, well, party is just a summary of people's political attitudes.
16:22
But we know from a range of evidence that that tends not to be the case.
16:27
So the first piece of evidence, we can go all the way back in people's political development to their childhood, and we can look at what develops first.
16:36
in this chicken and egg question.
16:39
And we find that people gain a sense of partisan understanding initially, especially from their parents.

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26:03
Would you agree with that or would you want to revise or even throw out that hypothesis?

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