Politics has in recent decades entered an era of intense polarization. Explanations have
implicated digital media, with the so-called echo chamber remaining a dominant causal …

Models of population-wide cultural change tend to invoke one of two broad models of
individual change. One approach theorizes people actively updating their beliefs and …

Extreme polarization can undermine democracy by making compromise impossible and
transforming politics into a zero-sum game.“Ideological polarization”—the extent to which …

Rising political polarization in recent decades has hampered and gridlocked policymaking,
as well as weakened trust in democratic institutions. These developments have been linked …

The median voter theorem has long been the default model of voter behavior and candidate
choice. While contemporary work on the distribution of political opinion has emphasized …

A theory of political belief system dynamics should incorporate causal connections between
elements of the belief system and the possibility that belief systems are influenced by …

Abstract In 2001, John Levi Martin published a critique of authoritarianism scholarship,
arguing that it was marred by fundamental biases of tautology, selective interpretation, and …

Objective Risk assessment and response is important for understanding human behavior.
The divisive context surrounding the coronavirus pandemic inspires our exploration of risk …

Political theorists have long argued that enlarging the political sphere to include a greater
diversity of interests would cure the ills of factions in a pluralistic society. While the scope of …

We present an agent-based model for studying the societal implications of attitude change
theories. Various psychological theories of persuasive communication at the individual level …