Election Outcomes and Affective Polarization in the United States
Published online on January 02, 2026
Abstract
Political Research Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 399-409, June 2026.
Do election outcomes exacerbate affective polarization? While polarization often rises during campaigns and correlates with democratic backsliding, isolating the effect of winning or losing has proven difficult because of the need for a pre-election ...
Do election outcomes exacerbate affective polarization? While polarization often rises during campaigns and correlates with democratic backsliding, isolating the effect of winning or losing has proven difficult because of the need for a pre-election ...