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 …

Rising partisan animosity is associated with a reduction in support for democracy and an
increase in support for political violence. Here we provide a multi-level review of …

Segregation across social groups is an enduring feature of nearly all human societies and is
associated with numerous social maladies. In many countries, reports of growing …

While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of
division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly …

Conjoint analysis is a common tool for studying political preferences. The method
disentangles patterns in respondents' favorability toward complex, multidimensional objects …

Conjoint survey experiments have become a popular method for analyzing multidimensional
preferences in political science. If properly implemented, conjoint experiments can obtain …

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 …

Are people conservative (liberal) because they are Republicans (Democrats)? Or is it the
reverse: people are Republicans (Democrats) because they are conservatives (liberals) …

We review an empirical literature that studies how political polarization affects financial
decisions. We first discuss the degree of partisan segregation in finance and corporate …

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 …