What’s Bad About Affective Polarization? What the Answers Tell Us About Conceptions of Democracy and Voting

• In Event: Political Psychology of Affective Polarization

Brief Overview

This paper analyzes the widespread claims that affective polarization is bad. I argue that many of the descriptions of its badness are incompatible with the most prominent theories of ideal voting behavior in public opinion literatures.

Author

• Benjamin Miller, University of Illinois