2020 Election Event Series: Political Polarization

About the event

American politics has grown steadily more contentious due to a social realignment, and a new central cleavage between the parties around issues of traditional social hierarchy. What is the radical and potentially violent nature of contemporary American partisanship?

Lilliana Mason is associate professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press).