by jpitney | Jan 19, 2022 | Mass Media, Polarization
Steven W. Webster, Elizabeth C. Connors, and Betsy Sinclair have written a study titled “The Social Consequences of Political Anger.” The abstract: A functioning democracy relies on social interactions between people who disagree—including listening to...
by jpitney | Jan 13, 2022 | Polarization, Violence
Political scientist Jay Ulfelder at The Harvard Gazette: What really worries me is we absolutely have seen the radicalization of one of the major political parties in the U.S., both in terms of the political ideas it’s putting forward, but also, its embrace of...
by jpitney | Jan 4, 2022 | Civic Education, Polarization
Frederick M. Hess at AEI: While students need to learn how to productively engage those who hold different views, too little civics education does so. On that score, I’m curious about the work of Next Generation Politics, a “cross-partisan” civics education group that...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2021 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Victoria Parker at The Atlantic Some caveats: Our research, which is available as a preprint, is under review and subject to change. We drew our large samples of respondents from online survey platforms, not from nationally representative polling. We recognize that...
by jpitney | Dec 7, 2021 | Congress, Polarization, Public Service
At AEI, Kevin Kosar talks to Stanford political scientist Andrew Hall: So what, according to your research, is driving polarization in the House? To explain polarization, we have to answer the question: Where have all the moderate candidates gone? My argument...
by jpitney | Nov 27, 2021 | civic virtue, Deliberation, Higher Education, Polarization
From Professor Robert George of Princeton: In recent days, our divisions have been stoked by high profile criminal cases. Viewed from the silos, the meanings of these cases seem obvious, and anyone who sees them differently must be an “ignoramus,” a “bigot,” an...
