Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes

R Axelrod, JJ Daymude, S Forrest - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
Extreme polarization can undermine democracy by making compromise impossible and
transforming politics into a zero-sum game.“Ideological polarization”—the extent to which …

Inequality, identity, and partisanship: How redistribution can stem the tide of mass polarization

AJ Stewart, JB Plotkin, N McCarty - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
The form of political polarization where citizens develop strongly negative attitudes toward
out-party members and policies has become increasingly prominent across many …

Quantifying the leadership and social media predictors of violence and racism during the January 6th attack on the Capitol

Q Li, B King, B Uzzi - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Protests involving brute force are growing in number and are now viewed as one of the
mostly likely sources of collective violence in the US 1 Yet our scientific understanding of …