An International Look At Affective Polarization

We often talk about the rise of affective polarization in the United States, but rarely are the trends we observe domestically placed in an international context. What about Norway, Canada, New Zealand, Japan? What are the trends in global affective polarization, and can those trends teach us anything about what’s driving the increase in the US? On this episode, we speak with Stanford political scientist Matthew Gentzkow about his first of its kind paper doing a cross-country analysis of the trends in affective polarization. The findings are fascinating and give us some insights into what drives affective polarization generally. Paper: https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01160/109262/Cross-Country-Trends-in-Affective-Polarization?redirectedFrom=fulltext