Polarization & Partisanship
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The following activities and people highlight efforts at Stanford to understand political parties and partisanship, and address extreme and affective polarization.
Upcoming Events
Research
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Conflict and Polarization Initiative
The Conflict and Polarization initiative fosters an interdisciplinary community of scholars who are interested in helping to solve the problems of violent conflict and political polarization. -
Deliberative Democracy Lab
The Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University conducts research and experiments focused on enhancing democratic practices and citizen engagement. -
Democracy and Polarization Lab (DPL)
The Democracy and Polarization Lab (DPL) works to understand modern-day challenges in democratic governance, reducing polarization, improving our information environment, maintaining the electoral process, and fostering democratic accountability.
Engagement Opportunities
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Bully Pulpit
Let's challenge the core beliefs that we take for granted and make students, professors, business leaders, and policymakers go head to head on issues that campus cares about. Not just political ones, but social, technological, and philosophical too. -
Civic Salons
Through the COLLEGE Program, the Residential Civic Salons bring meaningful conversations about important issue areas into undergraduate residence halls, moderated by Resident Fellows and notable faculty. -
ePluribus Stanford Campus Community Grant Program
The Campus Community Grants Program provides funding to support projects proposed and led by campus community members that strengthen the dispositions, skills, and habits of being curious and open-minded in the service of engaging across differences.
Courses
Scholars
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Professor of French and Italian -
Associate Director of the Program on Turkey -
Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution -
Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Economy at the Graduate School of Business -
Director of Graduate & Undergraduate Programs -
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emerita -
Senior Research Scholar
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Senior Research Scholar
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John H. Scully Professor of International Business Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychology -
The Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor of Organizational Behavior -
Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies -
Life Science Research Professional
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Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy -
Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor of the Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
