Disentangling Perceptual and Affective Polarization in Canada

• In Event: Affective Polarization Around the World

Brief Overview

Paper presents correlations of partisan-ideological and social polarization in Canada with out-party antipathy and a pair of experiments that aim to establish whether polarization misperceptions cause affective polarization or vice versa.

Authors

• Eric Merkley, University of Toronto

• Natasha Goel, University of Toronto