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 …

An individual's knowledge is collective in at least two senses: it often comes from other
people's testimony, and its deployment in reasoning and action requires accuracy …

Democrats and Republicans clearly dislike one another. Yet, scholars debate whether policy
disagreement or partisan identity, per se, drives interparty animus. Past studies suggest the …

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political
party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among …

The affective, identity based, and often negative nature of partisan polarization in the United
States has been a subject of much scholarly attention. Applying insights from recent work in …

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have
been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact …

The manifestations of party polarization in America are well known: legislative gridlock,
harsh elite rhetoric, and at the level of the electorate, increasing hostility across the partisan …

While affective polarization has been shown to have serious social consequences, there is
little evidence regarding its effects on political attitudes and behavior such as policy …

Elites in the US have become increasingly polarized over the past several decades. More
recently, the degree to which partisans view the opposing party more negatively than their …

American society is rapidly secularizing–a radical departure from its historically high level of
religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious …