The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

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 …

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

Affective polarization captures the extent to which citizens feel sympathy towards partisan in-
groups and antagonism towards partisan out-groups. This is comparatively easy to assess in …

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 …

We measure trends in affective polarization in twelve OECD countries over the past four
decades. According to our baseline estimates, the United States experienced the largest …

Several scholars in the United States have recently addressed an increased partisan
animosity between Democrats and Republicans, and have termed this phenomenon …

The claim that partisanship has developed into a social identity is one of the dominant
explanations for the current rising levels of affective polarization among the US electorate …

A well-functioning democracy requires a degree of mutual respect and a willingness to talk
across political divides. Yet numerous studies have shown that many electorates are …

The last decades have seen the emergence of a divide pitting the new left against the far
right in advanced democracies. We study how this universalism-particularism divide is …