the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …

strongly after financial crises as government majorities shrink and polarization rises. After a crisis, voters seem to be …

the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel … channel of income inequality and political campaign contributions on party polarization on the value dimension that is … exacerbate this polarization channel. The analysis suggests possible ways forward: 1) a stricter regulation of campaign finances …

linguistic polarization has a negative impact on local spending. Instrumental variable estimates using distance to the eastern …

countries for which we match aggregated indicators of populist values and social polarization computed from ESS and SILC survey … micro-data, respectively. We find that social polarization, along with other factors, can explain populist attitudes. We … also observe that both populist attitudes and polarization vary across countries much more than over time, with the …

We study the extent to which migrant inflows to the United States affect the political polarization of campaign donors … polarization measures based on ideology data derived from 16 million campaign finance contributors, our results show that migrant … inflows causally increase the polarization of both campaign donations and leading political candidates. Our estimates hold …