my impression is that polarization seems a bit less intractable in countries with multi-party systems [...]
I want to throw in one last note of caution against overstating current levels of polarization and division, because it’s too easy to see the past as better than it actually was.
I found Astral Codex Ten’s post Book Review: Why We’re Polarized quite interesting in relation to points like these. Perhaps the most useful single part of that article, in this context, is the graph that follows this sentence “The book itself doesn’t go international, but Klein did later follow up with a Vox article, whose highlight is this graph:”
(I can’t remember how to insert images in a Forum comment, so people will have to follow the link and search for that text to see the graph.)
I found Astral Codex Ten’s post Book Review: Why We’re Polarized quite interesting in relation to points like these. Perhaps the most useful single part of that article, in this context, is the graph that follows this sentence “The book itself doesn’t go international, but Klein did later follow up with a Vox article, whose highlight is this graph:”
(I can’t remember how to insert images in a Forum comment, so people will have to follow the link and search for that text to see the graph.)