ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
How Affective Polarization Shapes Trajectories of Nonviolent Resistance
This project explores how rising affective polarization shapes the trajectories of nonviolent resistance campaigns in contexts of democratic decline, and develops evidence-based strategies for promoting democracy from below even in polarized landscapes. Across the globe, civilians are rallying for political change, taking to the streets at unprecedented numbers to resist anti-democratic government actions. Yet as mobilization has skyrocketed, its effectiveness globally has plummeted. To explain this paradox, POLRES theorizes and empirically investigates the role of affective polarization, arguing that polarization acts as a double-edged sword: while it increases mobilization into…
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