What Can We Learn About Polarization From The UK?

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 12:21 p.m.

b'One theme on our show is trying to make sense of why elites appear to be so polarized when the larger public is more moderate. We almost always study these trends in the U.S. but could we look to another country for insight? A country like the UK perhaps?\\n \\nIn her paper \\u201cHas The British Public Depolarized Along with Political Elites?\\u201d University of Oxford political scientist Jane Green measures the differences between elite and public polarization during the eighties and nineties when the parties actually depolarized. Did elite depolarization lead to public depolarization, and what lessons do this data hold for the US?'