Citizen Mobilization and Asymmetric Party Polarization: Impacts from the Tea Party and the Anti-Trump Resistance

• In Event: Perspectives on a Polarized Era

Brief Overview

We examine the impact of Tea Party and anti-Trump resistance groups on the structure and priorities of state and local political party organizations, party-allied groups, and campaigns. We connect these impacts to asymmetric party polarization.

Authors

• Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

• Kirsten Walters, Harvard University