Institutional Remedies for Affective Polarization: Evidence from Israel

• In Event: JSS 11
  In JSS Session: Partisanship and Ideology

Brief Overview

We leverage the current ambiguity around coalition building in Israel to implement a survey experiment, identifying the effects of consociational institutional arrangements, such as unity governments on affective polarization.

Authors

• Lotem Bassan-Nygate, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin - Madison