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Professor Kathleen Belew discusses hopes of building an initiative at Northwestern and protecting democracy
As extremist rhetoric and violence in America increases, journalists have continually turned to Kathleen Belew, an Associate Professor of history at Northwestern, who has studied and written extensively on this threat to democracy. She spent ten years researching and writing her...
American anti-democratic sentiments thrive despite depolarization efforts, new study suggests
A new study revealed that depolarization initiatives do not affect anti-democratic attitudes. The Strengthening Democracy Project, a team of social scientists from Northwestern and three other universities, surveyed 8,000 partisans who were randomly assigned to interventions designed to reduce affective...