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 …

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 …

Despite widespread feeling that public opinion in the United States has become dramatically
polarized along political lines, empirical support for such a pattern is surprisingly elusive …

Asymmetric social alignments are transforming American partisan rhetoric, particularly how
politicians leverage identity-based appeals. For example, asymmetric religious, racial, and …

According to many scholars of public opinion, most of the fast-growing divides between
Democrats and Republicans over the last few decades have taken place on moral issues …

Over the past decade, implicit attitudes about sexual orientation, race, and age have
revealed both change toward neutrality (sexuality and race attitudes) and stability (age …

We provide commentaries on the papers included in the Dynamics of Political Polarization
Special Feature. Baldassarri reads the contribution of the papers in light of the theoretical …

In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided
with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and …

Prior studies of American polarization suggest that the public gradually sorted themselves
into partisan camps in the late 20th century while remaining largely non-ideological …

This article elaborates and tests the hypothesis that the sociopolitical segregation of
interpersonal networks (ie, social sorting) is at the root of recent polarization trends in the …