He pointed to data from American National Election Studies (ANES) to illustrate the significance of the two degree shift.

In A Nutshell The polarization surge was concentrated: American political polarization stayed relatively flat from 1988 to ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Now shift to the South Side, where gentrification shapes politics differently. The South Side Flats evolved from a blue-collar neighborhood into a place with many renters and younger residents. People ...

Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

It is no secret that the US has become deeply polarized – just look at the state of your news feed. The “left” and “right” ...

Producers of the Battleground Poll discussed their book on political polarization in the United States and solutions for the country’s political divide with Georgetown University students.

Barry Eichengreen, American economist who holds the title of George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, photographed on March 28 ...

Politicians and policy experts like to talk about the root causes of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices, and other problems. If they want to understand the root cause of political ...

A New Year should bring hope, yet it also confronts us with an urgent challenge: the widening political divide that threatens our sense of national community. Recent polling makes clear that ...

The United States government has been shut down for nearly a month, yet another indication that the political system has become deeply dysfunctional. But the shutdown is just another episode in a ...