ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
The Transnational Divide: Local Triggers, Social Networks, and Group Identities
TRANSNATIONAL seeks to explain a surprising and consequential feature of contemporary democratic politics—the intensity of polarization on immigration, Europe, and climate change. While recent research has made impressive advances in understanding individual attitudes and party-political competition, there is currently no empirically verified theory of how a person’s social context shapes their response to issues that arise on the political agenda. Without such a framework we cannot understand the rising incidence of group solidarity and affective polarization in our societies. TRANSNATIONAL combines insights from the literatures concerned with networks and identity formation to theorize…
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