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.
