Thanks for the shout-out! One quibble -- the Della Posta et al paper is actually quite good, I think it captures a main mechanism for polarization: the increasing alignment of seeming unrelated social/consumer preferences. And the Mutz and Rao paper is mostly a joke, if a somewhat expensive and self-indulgent one:
"On the one hand, lattes consumed in the United States are domestic goods. It would be difficult, if not impossible, under FAA rules, to import a cup of hot latte"
Thanks for the shout-out! One quibble -- the Della Posta et al paper is actually quite good, I think it captures a main mechanism for polarization: the increasing alignment of seeming unrelated social/consumer preferences. And the Mutz and Rao paper is mostly a joke, if a somewhat expensive and self-indulgent one:
"On the one hand, lattes consumed in the United States are domestic goods. It would be difficult, if not impossible, under FAA rules, to import a cup of hot latte"
I confess only read the Della Posta et al. (which I agree, is quite cool), but my point was not to dunk on the paper, but to have a fun example