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Analyzing the United States in Comparative Perspective
from Part I - Why Might Polarization Harm Democracy?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2021
This chapter unpacks and critically discusses the idea of democratic resilience vis-à-vis polarization that becomes “pernicious,” that is, it divides societies into mutually distrustful Us vs. Them camps. Democratic resilience, we argue, is a polity’s ability to produce electoral, programmatic, discursive, and organizational behavior that can jointly contain and reverse pernicious polarization and its democracy-eroding consequences. We apply comparative lessons to assess US resilience and vulnerability to such consequences, focusing on three factors: institutional constraints, formative rifts, and opposition capacities and strategies.
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