process of redistributing functions, powers, or people away from a central authority by incorporating autonomous entities such as municipalities and special districts

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Gross, B. (2015). What makes someone a cyber balkan? finding the linkages between social psychology and self-selectivity in U.S. politics online. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 23(4), 225–236. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2015.1047288 

What makes someone a Cyber Balkan? Finding the linkages between social psychology and self-selectivity in U.S. Politics online.

A person who (a) tend to find their "community' primarily in terms of only those who share their values regardless of physical proximity (b) prefers to be surrounded by similar other online, (c) selectively exposes themselves to websites where they expect others to confirm their preexisting viewpoints 

- motivated by desire to maintain a sense of certainty in their previous held beliefs 
-tends toward dogmatism
- likely to express anger toward political opposition 

Cyber Balkan 

tendency to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others. 

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