Introduction

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Introduction
3. The Group Theory of Parties: Identity Politics, Party Stereotypes, and Polarization in the 21st Century
4. Partisanship as Social Identity; Implications for the Study of Party Polarization
5. Losing Common Ground: Social Sorting and Polarization
6. Affective Polarization and Ideological Sorting: A Reciprocal, Albeit Weak, Relationship
7. Seeing Red (or Blue): How Party Identity Colors Political Cognition
8. Who is Ideological? Measuring Ideological Consistency in the American Public
9. The Dynamics of Voter Preferences in the 2016 Presidential Election
10. Book reviews
11. When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics
12. Opting Out of Congress: Partisan Polarization the Decline of Moderate Candidates