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 …

Persuasion is a vital part of politics—who wins elections and policy disputes often depends
on which side can persuade more people. Given this centrality, the study of persuasion has …

Scholars warn that affective polarization undermines democratic norms and accountability.
They speculate that if citizens were less affectively polarized, they would be less likely to …

Survey experiments have become a central methodology across the social sciences.
Researchers can combine experiments' causal power with the generalizability of population …

In this chapter, the authors start by presenting the ideational definition of populism. The
ideational definition of populism has three main parts: a Manichean and moral cosmology; …

A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that
poisons our politics? We don't live in a 'post-truth'society—but a 'myside'society in which no …

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 …

A key characteristic of democratic politics is competition between groups, first of all political
parties. Yet, the unavoidably partisan nature of political conflict has had too little influence on …

This volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally. When seeking power, populists
politicize issues, and point to problems that need to be addressed such as inequalities, the …

Late in the 2016 US Presidential primary, Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for playing
the “woman's card.” Theories of system justification suggest that attitudes about gender …