Posts in 2020
Polarization Under Rising Inequality and Economic Decline

Alexander J. Stewart, Nolan McCarty, and Joanna J. Bryson, Science Advances, 6(50), Dec 2020.

This project came out of my work on cultural variation in public goods investment, crossed with getting asked on live TV whether AI was increasing inequality. I thought I’d better find out and went to talk by Nolan and learned about the correlation between inequality and polarization. I’ve been talking about this project for a couple years, but the model in the paper is entirely Alex. (I did replicate his work with an ABM, but that’s harder to analyze ... ). This has been my main research focus personally since 2016 and I’ve spoken about it a few times as a contribution to academic meetings, including EHBEA, APSA, and ICSD (well, Alex spoke about it there, I watched :-)

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