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Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States

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The Institutions That Should Be a Bulwark Against the Pernicious Logic of Polarization

In your book, in the chapter from mcoyan summer, they write, the institutions that should be a bulwark against the pernicious logic of polarization thus become a mechanism of deepening polarization. I'd like to brain kenniththan because he understands how different institutions exist in ladin america especially, but throughout the world. Kenneth, can you explain a little bit about how the institutions in the united states have exasperated pernicious polarization, when really they should be toning down the polarization.

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