.... Finally, we interview legislators to hear their experiences as targets of persuasion. We conclude that legislative persuasion can be long-lasting and found on bills other than those targeted by advocates. Persuasion can increase ideological position-taking and polarization by allowing legislators...

...David P. Baron This paper presents a model with a legislature, courts, and an executive that can take unilateral action. The legislature is polarized, and when government is divided, parties or factions bargain over legislation, understanding that failure can result in executive action. The theory...

...Daniel M. Butler I study the change in polarization in the US Senate from the period 1947–1966 to 1995–2014. I use a decomposition approach to quantify how much of the increase in polarization between those two periods can be explained by the representation relationship with all voters versus...

... polarization In this day and age, we are constantly exposed to many information sources. As voters, we obtain news from different media sources, offline as well as online and through a myriad of social media platforms. This abundance of information might trigger simple heuristics that voters might use...

... Association, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, University of Oxford, and Harvard University. © 2020 P. Hernández-Lagos and D. Minor 2020 P. Hernández-Lagos and D. Minor Licensed re-use rights only Trust beliefs political identity polarization Political polarization in the United States...

... to subvert democracy. We explain why this check fails in polarized societies. When polarization is high, voters have a strong preference for their favorite candidate, which makes it costly for them to punish an incumbent by voting for a challenger. Incumbents exploit this lack of credible punishment...

... to competition, and we relate this measure to voting behavior in five national elections. We find a polarizing effect of immigration among voters experiencing negative wage effects of immigration. The polarization points to the existence of a protectionist and a compensatory response, and we propose...