The Way We Were: How Current and Past Cooperation between Co-Governing Parties Alleviates Affective Polarization in Mass Publics

• In Event: Fragmentation and Polarization in Industrialized Democracies

Brief Overview

Elite cooperation in consensual systems alleviates affective polarization and past co-governance also enhances inter-party relationships.

Authors

• Will Horne, Princeton University

• James Adams, University of California-Davis

• Noam Gidron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem