by jpitney | Oct 18, 2022 | Polarization
Charles Homans and Alyce McFadden at NYT: As a new poll suggests, the increasingly stark ideological divides of American politics have come with personal consequences. Nearly one in five voters — 19 percent — said that politics had hurt their friendships or family...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2022 | Higher Education, Polarization
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Far too often, the headlines are missing the fact that so much closed-mindedness and balkanization in terms of openness toward engaging with political difference is far more pronounced on the left. And this is a phenomenon that I have observed as...
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2022 | Civility, Deliberation, Polarization
Daniel Stid: Many civil society groups are responding to our fraught times by building bridges between citizens and groups that see the world differently and enabling them to engage in constructive dialogue. Given all the factors accelerating tribalism, depolarization...
by jpitney | Aug 5, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Polarization
Emily Wilkins at Bloomberg: Rep. Peter Meijer’s loss in his primary Tuesday night is the latest blow to dealmakers in the House known for reaching across the aisle and being willing to buck their party on votes when needed. Meijer, a member of the bipartisan Problem...
by jpitney | Jul 2, 2022 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Mike Allen at Axios: The acrid state of politics is seeping into Americans’ relationships and behavior, according to a poll out today from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP), headed by David Axelrod. Driving the...
by jpitney | Jun 16, 2022 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Andrew Romano at Yahoo: A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that most Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe it is “likely” that America will “cease to be a democracy in the future” — a stunning expression of bipartisan despair about the direction of the...
