Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

Americans are increasingly polarized by a variety of metrics. The dimensions, extent,
causes, and consequences of that polarization have been the subject of much debate. Yet …

American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, ie,
partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's …

Organizations, activists, and scholars hope that conversations between outpartisans
(supporters of opposing political parties) can reduce affective polarization (dislike of …

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

Scholars warn that affective polarization undermines democratic norms and accountability.
They speculate that if citizens were less affectively polarized, they would be less likely to …

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American
democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make …

Using a general model of opinion dynamics, we conduct a systematic investigation of key
mechanisms driving elite polarization in the United States. We demonstrate that the self …

An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American
democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the …

Voters in many advanced democracies increasingly dislike their political opponents, a
phenomenon that is known as affective polarisation. The growing animosity between …