The dark and bright sides of party polarization
- In the latest contribution to the Democracy Papers, Thomas Zittel explores when and how polarization becomes a cause for democratic anxiety. He argues that polarization over traditional policy issues is not in itself harmful, and can even be beneficial for democracies. However, he warns that polarization in which parties become divided over the acceptable rules of the game is a problem for democracies. Unfortunately, this latter type of division is increasingly common on both sides of the Atlantic today.
| Author: | Thomas ZittelORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-509089 |
| URL: | https://items.ssrc.org/democracy-papers/the-dark-and-bright-sides-of-party-polarization |
| Parent Title (English): | Items & issues |
| Publisher: | Social Science Research Council |
| Place of publication: | New York, NY |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2018 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2018/02/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/09/02 |
| Tag: | democratic ideals; fringe politics; participation; polarization; populism |
| Volume: | 72 |
| Issue: | February 20, 2018 |
| Page Number: | 5 |
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| HeBIS-PPN: | 453937535 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
