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 …

Highlights•Polarization, that is, the separation and clustering of political attitudes, is good for
democracy in small doses.•However, excessive polarization leads people to disregard views …

In this article we analyze data from high‐quality surveys conducted in the United States and
the United Kingdom that included multiple symbolic and operational measures of political …

Over the past two decades, citizens' political rights and civil liberties have declined globally.
Psychological science can play an instrumental role in both explaining and combating the …

This essay focuses on the voters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro in Morro da Cruz, a low-
income community in Porto Alegre. The transition from Lulism (2002–16) to Bolsonarism …

Highlights•Populist movements tap into key psychological needs for belonging and
status.•Intergroup dynamics are at the core of how voters categorise the political …

Focusing on the rising support for the populist right in Eastern Europe, this book examines
how anger and resentment towards minorities is being utilized in politics. Bustikova details …

Highlights•We review evidence of a psychological association between authoritarianism and
right-wing conservative ideology.•The evidence is based on seven decades of research, on …

" The recent United States presidential election as well as the responses to the protests
about the death of Blacks at the hands of the police has brought forward the question of …

Democracies across the globe are shaken by a new class of populist right‐wing politicians.
A defining element of right‐wing populism is a preference for antagonistic rhetoric to …