This article reviews the growing economics literature that studies the politico-economic
impacts of heterogeneity in moral boundaries across individuals and cultures. The so-called …

The current polarization of elites in the US, particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to
the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones …

Bakker and Lelkes point at a critical gap in research on affective polarisation: the limited
understanding of its affective components, mainly due to the reliance on a unidimensional …

We study how political preferences shaped California's High-Speed Rail (CHSR), a large
transportation project approved by referendum in 2008. Across census tracts, support for the …

A key promise of democratic voting is that, by accounting for all constituents' preferences, it
produces decisions that benefit the constituency overall. It is alarming, then, that all …

Affective polarization (AP), the increased negative affect between opposing ideological
groups, is a growing concern in Western democracies. While often attributed to mutual …

Democratic representation is constrained by the alternatives available to voters. In this
paper, we develop a methodology to gauge the extent to which the “supply side” of politics …

Electoral incentives may lead policymakers to eschew opportunities for common-interest
reform, focusing instead on zero-sum, partisan policymaking. By forgoing opportunities for …

We study polarization in a probabilistic voting model with aggregate shocks and a
decreasing marginal utility from office rents. In equilibrium, parties offer different policies …

In most of the world's democracies, policy decisions are primarily made by elected political
officials. However, under mounting dissatisfaction with representative government due to …