polarization of citizens' preferences and characteristics. We show that the increasing degree of polarization does not, in general …-intuitively, the relation between polarization and the stability threshold is ambiguous. We also examine the question of the number of … number and the degree of the country polarization. We find that the stable number of countries also behaves non …

In this paper we question the common wisdom that more polarized voters’ opinions imply larger policy polarization. We … analyze a voting model in which the source of the polarization in voters’ opinions is “correlation neglect”, that is, voters … neglect the correlation in their information sources. Our main result shows that such polarization in opinions does not …

institutes, the extent to which intellectual competition between different schools of thought may lead to polarization of views …

regressions, time-series modelling, panel data analysis - can be misleading for understanding convergence; a model of polarization …

latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …

) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii) accounts for the distance between languages. Our results suggest that … linguistic diversity is a better predictor of redistribution than linguistic polarization. We also find that incorporating …