Government professor Sean Westwood analyzes the midterm elections. Read the full article HERE!
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Government professor Sean Westwood and the Polarization Research Lab are featured in an op-ed about the midterm election results. Read the full 'The New York Times' opinion piece HERE!
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As political polarization in the U.S. grows, researchers are working to understand what's driving it and what can be done to address it. Already political scientists know that citizens often don't understand the political positions of their party and don't follow debates in Congress. Yet, some are increasingly willing to discriminate against those of the opposing party, allowing their animosity to spill over into daily life.
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Thomas B. Edsall of The New York Times spoke to a number of Political Scholars including Dartmouth's Sean Westwood on "Sorting". Sean Westwood of Dartmouth stressed the importance of "sorting":
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A "New York Times" story about the question of support for political violence in the U.S. a year after the Jan 6 insurrection cites a paper co-authored by government professor Sean Westwood that says documented support for such violence is "illusory, a product of ambiguous questions, conflated definitions, and disengaged respondents." Read the full article here!
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