Todd E. Pettys (Iowa): Partisanship, Social Identity, and American Government: Reality and Reflections. Andrew B. Hall and Daniel M. Thompson (Stanford): Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in U.S. Elections. The primary problem: Primaries encourage polarization and lock politicians into a cycle of overpromising and underdelivering — is there a better way? Republicans and Democrats both say they support democratic freedoms — but that the other side doesn’t. Peter H. Schuck on his book One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us.
A Yale psychologist’s simple thought experiment temporarily turned conservatives into liberals. For elites, politics is driven by ideology; for voters, it’s not: Committed liberals and conservatives don’t realize how weird they are. Is media driving Americans apart? The partisan news effect on politics: How much does the political slant of cable news channels impact elections? Six charts that explain why American politics is so broken: The Pew Research Center’s political typology report, explained.
