ERA-NET: Threat, identity, and dissent: Understanding and addressing political polarization in European democracies

This project aims to determine how identities and threats combine to generate multiple polarized attitudes and compares subpopulations of belief systems across countries and over time. Correlational class analysis and experiments that test the causal effects of identities and threats are used to further explore this and help to not only understand but to also identify solutions to overcome polarization by investigating the role of democratic innovations.