The most cited paper since 2010 in the volumes of political science.

Today we look at a paper entitled "The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States", it's the most cited paper since 2010 in the annual volumes of political science. Its abstract reads as follows:

While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms,a new type of division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly dislike and distrust those from the other party.Democrats and Republicans both say that the other party’s members are hypocritical, selfish, and closed-minded, and they are unwilling to socialize across party lines. This phenomenon of animosity between the parties is known as affective polarization. We trace its origins to the power of partisanship as a social identity, and explain the factors that intensify partisan animus. We also explore the consequences of affective polarization, highlighting how partisan affect influences attitudes and behaviors well outside the political sphere. Finally, we discuss strategies that might mitigate partisan discord and conclude with suggestions for future work.

Link to NORC nationwide poll video:

0:00 Intro
0:49 Partisan social identity
3:05 Causes of affective polarization
7:20 Decreasing affective polarization

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[phpn]

Social Media. It acts as a feedback loop and amplifies polarities.

[Xob_Driesestig]

Well if the US has it more than European countries it seems like one explanation is that it's worsened by the voting system. If you have a voting system that creates a two party system, it becomes easier to get polarized (two poles) than if you have one that creates many different parties. The intervention is then obvious, remove the two party system creating electoral system. You could go even further and select a voting system that favors the center, e.g., ranked choice and approval voting both allow for multiple parties, but approval favors the center more. Or you could select a voting system that allows multiple parties and actively focussed on generating consensus e.g. max parc. Or you go the even more extreme route and rely less on voting systems and use more citizen assembly's instead. Personally, I like citizen assembly's, but they're very legislatively inefficient, I would start with switching to something akin to approval and maxparc, and see if we still need the citizens assembly's after that.

[Elisi]

could you please review the debate of norm finkelstein vs destiny on lex fridmans podcast?

[j]

You mispronounce "echo chamber".