TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zittel, Thomas
T1  - The dark and bright sides of party polarization
T2  - Items & issues
N2  - 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.
KW  - democratic ideals
KW  - fringe politics
KW  - participation
KW  - polarization
KW  - populism
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50908
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-509089
UR  - https://items.ssrc.org/democracy-papers/the-dark-and-bright-sides-of-party-polarization
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VL  - 72
IS  - February 20, 2018
PB  - Social Science Research Council
CY  - New York, NY
ER  -