Polarization & Politics
Uncivil Agreement
By Lilliana Mason
The academic text that popularized ‘affective polarization,’ the idea that division is identity-based rather than just issue-based, written for a general readership.
Book
2018

Overview

The academic text that popularized ‘affective polarization,’ the idea that division is identity-based rather than just issue-based, written for a general readership.

About the Author

Lilliana Mason is the SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Democracy and Division Lab. She holds a Ph.D. in political psychology from Stony Brook University and is also co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship.
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Book

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Lilliana Mason

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2018

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Polarization & Politics

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