A growing literature explores how local environments, or contexts, affect political behavior,
especially by shaping interpersonal contact with social out-groups. While many studies still
draw directly on long-standing hypotheses from contact theory, this research agenda
increasingly focuses on new research questions, beyond the classic social psychology
literature, and new empirical cases, including from across the lower-and middle-income
world. We develop a typology of forms of context and contact to aid the aggregation of …