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Political Reality
Our daily lives seem increasingly overwhelmed by polarization, misinformation, and dubious culture wars, while we face countless serious problems that require thoughtful and evidence-based solutions. To move forward, we need a shared reality of facts and reason with an equally shared dedication to democracy and fairness. The Political Reality podcast is here to fill that void – diving into how politics and governments work, how to make them work better, how to navigate the dizzying world of political information, and how to better understand and approach the “other side”. We can find a shared political reality if we are willing.
- Politics chart
- #117
- Episodes
- 35
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 57 min
- On air since
- 2026
- Latest episode
- 6 days ago
Episodes
35 episodes, newest first
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57 min
The "Low Voltage" Politics of New Zealand with Prof. Alex Tan
Season 2, Episode 11
Show notes
Thank you to Dr. Alex Tan for joining us this week! Check out his podcast "Views from Down Underer”
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11 min
Can polls be trusted? Trailer
Season 2, Episode 10
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52 min
The most important election of our lives (until the next one, and the next one and the next)
Season 2, Episode 9
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11 min
PREVIEW: What Americans can learn from Australians about politics with Chas Licciardello Trailer
Season 2, Episode 8
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1 hr 3 min
PR ABROAD: Australian Political Primer + Panda Diplomacy
Season 2, Episode 7
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10 min
PREVIEW: WAR: why don't we stop having them? Bonus
Season 2, Episode 6
Show notes
FULL EPISODE
https://www.patreon.com/politicalreality/posts/war-why-dont-we-170386581
1. ⚔️ Sun Tzu (circa 500 BCE), The Art of War
https://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html2. 🏛️ Thucydides (circa 400 BCE), History of the Peloponnesian War (brief overview here)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7142/7142-h/7142-h.htm
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/thucydides3. 🌐 Morgenthau (1949), Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (overview here)
http://slantchev.ucsd.edu/courses/ps240/04%20Conflict%20with%20States%20as%20Unitary%20Actors/Morgenthau%20-%20Politics%20among%20nations%20(selected%20chapters).pdf
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/morgenthau-advances-realist-school-power-politics4. 🎓 By the way, many of these classic texts are currently available as PDFs on Branislav Sanchez’s course page for an international relations course he teaches at UCSD. Happy reading, and thanks, Prof. Sanchez for making these available! The syllabus on this page also offers a fantastic rundown of many of the themes we covered in this episode (plus many more, and deeper divers – enjoy!).
https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/slantchev-profile.html
http://slantchev.ucsd.edu/courses/ps240/5. 📘 Waltz (1959), Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bslantchev/courses/ps240/02%20Levels%20of%20Analysis%20and%20Strategic%20Choice/Waltz%20-%20Man,%20The%20State,%20and%20War.pdf6. ♟️ Schelling (1960), The Strategy of Conflict
https://www.sackett.net/Strategy-of-Conflict.pdf7. 💥 Blainey (1973), The Causes of War
https://archive.org/details/causesofwar0000blai/page/n5/mode/2up8. 🔗 Keohane & Nye (1977), Power and Interdependence
http://slantchev.ucsd.edu/courses/ps240/05%20Cooperation%20with%20States%20as%20Unitary%20Actors/Keohane%20&%20Nye%20-%20Power%20and%20interdependence%20%5BCh%201-3%5D.pdf9. 🌎 Waltz (1979), Theory of International Politics
http://slantchev.ucsd.edu/courses/ps240/03%20Anarchy,%20Hierarchy,%20and%20Sovereignty/Waltz%20-%20Theory%20of%20International%20Politics%20(Ch%205-8).pdf10. 🤝 Keohane (1984), After Hegemony
http://slantchev.ucsd.edu/courses/ps240/05%20Cooperation%20with%20States%20as%20Unitary%20Actors/Keohane%20-%20After%20Hegemony%20%5BCh%204-6%5D.pdf11. 🔄 Axelrod (1984), The Evolution of Cooperation
https://bert.stuy.edu/pbrooks/spring2015/materials/HumanReasoning-2/Axelrod_Robert_The_Evolution_of_Cooperation.pdf12. 🗳️ Fearon (1994), “Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes”
https://web.stanford.edu/group/fearon-research/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Domestic-Political-Audiences-and-the-Escalation-of-International-Disputes.pdf13. ⚖️ Fearon (1995), “Rationalist Explanations for War”
https://web.stanford.edu/group/fearon-research/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Rationalist-Explanations-for-War.pdf14. 🕊️ B. Bueno de Mesquita et al. (1999), “An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/258611315. 🌍 Mearsheimer (2001), The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
https://wwnorton.com/books/978039334927616. 📜 Fortna (2003), “Scraps of Paper? Agreements and the Durability of Peace”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/scraps-of-paper-agreements-and-the-durability-of-peace/70A924CC6B4785C30BADF415244FFA1F17. 🏢 Koremenos et al. (2003), “The Rational Design of International Institutions”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/rational-design-of-international-institutions/29B784E99033C7B3FC0564B96A64FE2118. 🧩 Ruggie (2005), “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge.”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/what-makes-the-world-hang-together-neoutilitarianism-and-the-social-constructivist-challenge/0160858E3E6D4D6468C926BCD6654FE919. 🔎 E. Bueno de Mesquita (2005), “The Quality of Terror”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/364772920. 🧠 Wendt (2009), “Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/anarchy-is-what-states-make-of-it-the-social-construction-of-power-politics/B03BC7C9AAC5211B6DC319C077C1A85421. 🤝 Walter (2009), “Bargaining Failures and Civil War”
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.101405.13530122. ❓ Ramsay (2017), “Information, Uncertainty, and War”
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051215-02272923. 📚 Chenoweth et al. (eds.) (2019), The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/2826724. 🤖 Murphy, et al. (2024), “The Promise of Machine Learning in Violent Conflict Forecasting”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/data-and-policy/article/promise-of-machine-learning-in-violent-conflict-forecasting/40D559ADA18FF7308915B08956B4E8F325. 📊 Some datasets we mentioned: Correlates of War, Uppsala conflict data program, Fragile states index
Correlates of War:
https://correlatesofwar.org/Uppsala conflict data program:
https://ucdp.uu.se/Fragile states index:
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1 hr
How climate change got politicized
Season 1, Episode 5
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10 min
Who has more diversity of thought: Democrats or Republicans? (Sorry Independents) Trailer
Season 2, Episode 4
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1. 🧠 Dias et al. (2025), “American partisans vastly under-estimate the diversity of other partisans’ policy attitudes.”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/american-partisans-vastly-underestimate-the-diversity-of-other-partisans-policy-attitudes/CD71B9D75D10CFA0A9A07501E1CCD81A#article2. 👥 A few corporate-focused diversity of thought resources (Scott E. Page was my Ph.D. advisor so bias alert):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_E._Page📘 1. Page (2007; 2025 second edition), The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies
📗 2. Page (2019), The diversity bonus: How great teams pay off in the knowledge economy
📄 3. Page & Hong (2004), “Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers”
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.04037231013. 📊 Democrats tend to be more diverse along many (not all) standard demographic/identity dimensions: Pew research
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-changing-demographic-composition-of-voters-and-party-coalitions/4. 🎓 Republicans tend to be more diverse along education (depending on how you measure it!): More Pew
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-race-ethnicity-and-education/5. 📰 Older work on diversity of Democrat vs. Republican news consumption: Pew again!
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2014/10/21/section-1-media-sources-distinct-favorites-emerge-on-the-left-and-right/6. 📱 More recent shifts in news consumption: rise of online, proliferation on the right
🌐 Rise of online:
https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/23818/2025-10-28/shifts-political-news-consumption.html➡️ Proliferation on the right:
https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly7. 📲 Chang et al. (2025), “Liberals and conservatives share information differently on social media”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40697192/8. 🕸️ Lüders et al. (2023), “Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network-modeling to research attitude-identity relationships in polarized political contexts.”
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.126659. 📊 American National Election Studies (ANES) data on:
⚕️ 1. Abortion
https://electionstudies.org/data-tools/anes-guide/anes-guide.html?chart=abortion_by_law🌎 2. Immigration
https://electionstudies.org/data-tools/anes-guide/anes-guide.html?chart=immigrants_should_be_decreased_increased🔎 3. Guns
https://electionstudies.org/data-tools/anes-guide/anes-guide.html?chart=gun_purchase_control10. 🤔 Other background on ways we misunderstand each other:
📄 1. Ahler (2014), “Self-fulfilling misperceptions of polarization”
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1017/S0022381614000085📄 2. Enders & Armaly (2018), “The differential effects of actual and perceived polarization.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-018-9476-2📄 3. Ahler & Sood (2018), “The parties in our heads: Misperceptions about party composition and their consequences.”
https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:605549/datastream/PDF/view📝 4. Garton et al. (working paper; not peer-reviewed yet, but just to explore some of the latest/current/ongoing research), “Partisans overestimate their side’s intolerance.”
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59 min
Are Americans getting less religious? w/ Dr. Melissa Deckman
Season 2, Episode 3
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**1. ⛪ Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI):** https://prri.org/ --- **2. 👩🏫 More on Dr. Melissa Deckman:** https://www.melissadeckman.com/ --- **3. 📊 2025 PRRI Census on American Religion** https://prri.org/spotlight/2025-prri-census-of-american-religion/ --- **4. 🗺️ Mapping abortion views across the 50 states: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas** https://prri.org/research/mapping-abortion-views-across-the-50-states-insights-from-prris-2025-american-values-atlas/ --- **5. ✝️ Collection of PRRI’s research on Christian Nationalism** https://prri.org/prri-research/prri-issues/christian-nationalism/ --- **6. 📚 Melissa’s most recent book: *The politics of Gen Z: How the youngest voters will shape our democracy*** https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-gen-z/9780231560085/ --- **7. 🔬 More of Melissa’s (many!) books and (prolific!) papers and other research here** https://www.melissadeckman.com/research --- **8. 📱 Follow/watch/read/learn more from PRRI on their:** **▶️ 1. YouTube** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1GzzUoUV9zsSB-FEOJDryg **📸 2. Instagram** https://www.instagram.com/prripoll/ **💼 3. LinkedIn** https://www.linkedin.com/company/public-religion-research-institute/ **📰 4. Substack** https://prri.substack.com --- **9. 💝 And you can always donate to their nonprofit work if you feel so moved!** https://prri.org/donate/
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10 min
PREVIEW: Why haven't we had a woman president? Bonus
Season 2, Episode 2
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1. 📊 Burns et al. (2025), What’s happened to the gender gap in political activity? Social structure, politics, and political participation in the United States
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/whats-happened-to-the-gender-gap-in-political-activity/1A6EFA30E995F841B8D61D6EDEC0F7772. 📄 Burns et al. (2018), “What’s happened to the gender gap in political participation? How might we explain it?”
https://academic.oup.com/book/5111/chapter-abstract/147698891?redirectedFrom=fulltext3. 📚 Burns et al. (2009), The private roots of public action: Gender, equality, and political participation
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.4159/9780674029088/html4. 🗳️ Lawless & Fox (2019), “A Trump effect? Women and the 2018 midterm elections”
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/for-2018-0038/html5. 🎯 Fox & Lawless (2023), “The invincible gender gap in political ambition”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/invincible-gender-gap-in-political-ambition/547D8E289D82299856644844269E2FC96. 📈 Fox & Lawless (2022), “The gender gap in political ambition: Everything you need to know in ten charts” (not a peer-reviewed research paper; rather, is a helpful PDF with some charts of broad trends)
https://thelawmakers.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Gender-Gap-in-Political-Ambitions_Report_Final-Jen-Lawless-2022-3-1.pdf7. ⚖️ Hayes & Lawless (2021), “The contingent effects of sexism in primary elections”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/106591292110431348. 🧠 Dolan & Lawless (2021), “The importance of political science for understanding the developmental roots of gender gaps in politics”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1047840X.2021.19307629. 📝 Dolan & Lawless (working paper), “Gender bias in primary elections? Survey says no” (note this is a working paper, which means it is still in progress and has not been peer reviewed)
https://www.dannyhayes.org/uploads/6/9/8/5/69858539/dolan_and_lawless_ncapsa_paper.pdf10. 🏛️ Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) graph of percentage of members of Congress who are women (plus lots of other data and historical information)
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/data/levels-office/congress#Current11. 👥 Overview of voter attitudes towards women in elections (also from CAWP)
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/research-analysis/gender-and-politics-research-hub/research-Inventory/voter-attitudes-toward-women-politics12. 🔬 In general two people to follow who are leading researchers in this space are:
👩🏫 1. Nancy Burns (bias alert! She was my professor for a research methods course in graduate school!)
https://lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/nburns.html🎓 2. Jennifer Lawless
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54 min
What good is the electoral college anyway?
Season 2, Episode 1
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## Show Notes for Electoral College Ep. ### 🏛️ History & background 1. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Great_Compromise.htm 2. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/connecticut-compromise-great-compromise 3. https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/US-Constitution/Connecticut-Compromise 4. https://constitutioncenter.org/education/classroom-resource-library/classroom/4.4-info-brief-compromises-of-the-convention 5. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/generic/Connecticut_Compromise_Unveiling.htm 6. http://www.federalism.org/encyclopedia/no-topic/connecticut-compromise/ 7. https://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/history/sherman.htm 8. https://connecticuthistory.org/the-connecticut-compromise/ ### ✅ Key arguments for the electoral college: 🛡️ **Prevents “tyranny of the majority”** 10. https://www.thoughtco.com/electoral-college-pros-and-cons-4686409 11. https://www.kqed.org/w/youdecide/election2008/electoral_college/02.html 12. https://www.arlnow.com/2026/02/12/bill-to-support-popular-vote-in-presidential-elections-passes-virginia-senate/ 13. https://www.sightline.org/2020/11/24/afraid-cities-would-rule-with-a-national-popular-vote-dont-be/ 🏘️ **Protects the voice of small states** 14. https://www.thepolicycircle.org/understanding-the-electoral-college/ 15. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-22/electoral-college-popular-vote-founders-james-madison-great-compromise 16. https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/the-importance-of-the-electoral-college/ 17. https://theconversation.com/the-electoral-college-system-isnt-one-person-one-vote-150342 🇺🇸 **Preserves federalism** 18. https://riponsociety.org/article/why-the-electoral-college-should-be-preserved/ 🏆 **Creates decisive mandates** 19. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-government-and-civics/american-civics-parent/american-civics/v/electoral-college 20. https://www.heritage.org/the-essential-electoral-college/the-benefits 🔎 **Localizes recounts** 21. https://legislature.maine.gov/testimony/resources/VLA20210511Ross132651777911040076.pdf 22. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-005-3210-4 23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election 24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election ### ❌ Key arguments against the electoral college: 🗳️ **Conflict with popular vote** 25. https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/380960-understanding-the-us-electoral-college-who-what-why-when-and-how-we-elect-our-presidents 26. https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-bill-electoral-college-votes-national-popular-vote/291-fb82926e-ca20-4441-927b-97c491c4cdc1?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_13News_Now_-_WVEC 27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote 🎯 **Hyper-focus on swing states** 28. https://www.polyas.com/election-glossary/electoral-college 29. https://foley.wsu.edu/research/ask-the-foley-institute/afi-electoral-college/ 30. https://www.albert.io/blog/electoral-college-ap-us-government-crash-course/ ⚖️ **Unequal vote weight** 31. https://www.nytimes.com/article/the-electoral-college.html 32. https://www.monmouth.edu/magazine/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-about-the-electoral-college/ 33. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/nation-world/electoral-college-how-it-works-history/507-90d314dd-1e0d-4d85-b336-d2612dd1ef38 📊 **Winner-take-all distortion** 34. https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/the-electoral-college-and-our-broken-presidential-election-system/ 35. https://www.lwvme.org/NPVmyths 36. https://www.uchscommander.com/opinions/2025/01/31/electoral-college-disrupts-democracy/ 37. https://indianacitizen.org/kennedy-commentary-the-electoral-college/ 📉 **Depresses local turnout** 38. https://virginiahistory.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/7.4-Activity-3-Persuasive Writing.pdf 39. https://medium.com/@dukepolis/your-vote-does-not-count-why-the-electoral-college-erodes-the-foundations-of-democracy-3bc7632d3283 ### 🔧 Possible reforms 40. https://www.insidepolitics.org/brookingsreports/AbolishElectoralCollege.pdf 41. https://news.gallup.com/poll/2323/Americans-Historically-Favored-Changing-Way-Presidents-Elected.aspx 42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact#cite_note-FOOTNOTENealeNolan20191-104 43. https://fairvote.org/archives/the_electoral_college-past_attempts_at_reform/ 44. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college/ 45. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/different-ways-reforming-electoral-college-past-and-present 46. https://effectivegov.uchicago.edu/primers/the-electoral-college
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43 min
What We Hope You Learned
Season 1, Episode 24
Show notes
Thank you for watching/listening to this season. We hope you find the show informative and will join us in Season 2
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55 min
Season 1 Recap - What We Learned
Season 1, Episode 23
Show notes
Thanks for joining on this new endeavor.
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1 hr 2 min
How Does Democracy Score
Season 1, Episode 22
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10 min
PREVIEW: Being in Congress Trailer
Season 1, Episode 20
Show notes
Full Episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-in-s01e21-159335999
Thanks to Derek Kilmer for joining us!
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59 min
How to Talk Politics with Prof. Lindsay Cormack
Season 1, Episode 20
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Prof. Cormack’s excellent book, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It): https://howtoraiseacitizen.com/
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Her DC Inbox searchable database of e-newsletters from members of Congress (well worth exploring): https://www.dcinbox.com/
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More of her research and writing: https://www.lindseycormack.com/
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Follow Prof. Cormack: https://www.instagram.com/howtoraiseacitizen/
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10 min
European Affective Polarization Trailer
Season 1, Episode 19
Show notes
🌍 Primary studies discussed in the episode:
1. 📄 Wagner, Markus (2024), “Affective polarization in Europe,” European Political Science Review
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/affective-polarization-in-europe/36BDBF804365FE0B350E610E9E7C714E2. 📄 Boxell et al. (2024), “Cross-country trends in affective polarization,” The Review of Economics and Statistics
https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/106/2/557/109262/Cross-Country-Trends-in-Affective-Polarization3. 📚 Reiljan, Andres (2025), “Affective polarization in Europe,” ch. 8 of the Handbook of Affective Polarization
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035310609/chapter8.xml📘 Handbook of Affective Polarization
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-oa/book/9781035310609/9781035310609.xml4. 📄 Iyengar et al. (2012), “Affect, not ideology: A social identity perspective on polarization,” Public Opinion Quarterly
https://pcl.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj22066/files/media/file/iyengar-poq-affect-not-ideology.pdf5. 📄 Iyengar et al. (2019), “The origins and consequences of affective polarization in the United States,” Annual Review of Political Science
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051117-0730346. 📄 Druckman & Levy (2022), “Affective polarization in the American public,” ch. 18 of the Handbook on Politics and Public Opinion
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800379619/book-part-9781800379619-30.xml7. 🎙️ And, of course, see our previous episode on this :).
https://politicalrealitypodcast.com/videos/is-polarization-actually-a-problem-s01e05-teaser/Finally, you may be surprised to see that Turkey is included as a European country. We were also surprised! While only 3% of Turkey’s landmass (or 15% of its population) is in Europe (the rest is considered to be in Asia), it is relatively standard practice in global measures to categorize it along with other European countries.
For example, see also the latest Economist Intelligence Unit 2025 democracy index report:
https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2025/Or their Wikipedia page if you don’t feel like downloading it!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_IndexTurkey is also a NATO member, member of the Council of Europe, and an EU candidate (though negotiations are currently frozen), among other European memberships. Most importantly, it’s also part of Eurovision ;).
All of that said, this is an excellent example of how the “simple” act of classification, never mind quantification, is an enduring challenge in political science! You could certainly imagine a valid case for analyzing, say, aggregate European data both with and without Turkey included (as well as Russia, and some others).
🧠 For a primer/refresher on affective polarization in general, see:🇹🇷 A quick note on Turkey and “Europe”
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1 hr 6 min
Damage to Science Under Trump
Season 1, Episode 18
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10 min
PREVIEW: Politicization of Science Trailer
Season 1, Episode 17
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1 hr 5 min
What would it take to solve homelessness in America? with Andrew Heaton!
Season 1, Episode 16
Show notes
1. 🎙️ Check out Andrew Heaton’s podcast and Substack, The Political Orphanage
https://www.thepoliticalorphanage.com2. ▶️ You can also find his podcast and other videos on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewHeatonTPO3. 📚 Here’s one of his many books: Tribalism is Dumb
https://www.amazon.com/Tribalism-Dumb-Where-Came-about/dp/B0DJKSZP6J4. 🎧 Here are some of his Political Orphanage episodes that are about homelessness:
🏚️ Homelessness, and our stupid solutions
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/homelessness-and-our-stupid-solutions/id1439837349?i=1000548447580🦖 How Godzilla beat the housing crisis
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-godzilla-beat-the-housing-crisis/id1439837349?i=1000710268550&l=fr-FR🏘️ The best tiny house village in America (an interview with Alan Graham, the founder of Community First! Village, an organization we discussed in the episode)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-tiny-house-village-in-america/id1439837349?i=1000549032659🐶 We’ll watch your dog while you’re in rehab (an interview with Evan Taylor and Cindy Webb, who lead Pause for Paws, one of the organizations we talked about in the episode)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/well-watch-your-dog-while-youre-in-rehab/id1439837349?i=10006850608365. 🏡 More information about Community First! Village
https://mlf.org/community-first/6. 🐾 More information about Pause for Paws
https://www.pause4pawsok.org7. 🌐 Check out all of Andrew Heaton’s goings on:
https://mightyheaton.com/8. 😂 You can also watch him in comedy videos about politics, like this one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1z_xtOmgek
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