"I think the general point is that politically, Iowa should not matter. It's homogeneous, it's rural, and it's overwhelmingly white," Professor Westwood says about the first-in-the-nation caucuses in an article for ABC News.
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"Americans see the collapse of safety in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco and blame the entire Democratic Party for the policies of a fringe extreme," Prof. Sean Westwood tells the New York Times. Read more at: https://dartgo.org/dnewswestwood1023
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A Washington Post editorial notes that Gov Spencer Cox, R-Utah, the new chair of the National Governors Association, is working with Dartmouth and Stanford researchers behind the Polarization Research Lab--which is directed by government professor Sean Westwood--to lower the animosity in politics. Read the full article HERE!
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In the United States, some people seem comfortable with the idea of using violence to hash out political differences.
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"To fix anti-democratic attitudes by changing levels of partisan animosity sounds promising, but it is like trying to heal a broken bone in a gangrenous leg when the real problem is the car accident that caused both injuries in the first place," Associate Professor Sean Westwood, Director of the Polarization Research Lab tells The New York Times.
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