How Generational Turnover And Party Switching Reshape The US Political Map

How Generational Turnover And Party Switching Reshape The US Political Map

Political polarisation has increased dramatically in the US in recent decades and is often linked to partisan geographic segregation. This column presents new evidence from 2008 to 2020 that reveals an increase in partisan segregation even at very local level…

Political polarisation in the US has increased dramatically in recent decades, both among political elites (Gentzkow et al. 2019) and citizens (Fiorina and Abrams 2008). Among twelve OECD countries, … [+11015 chars]