Brazil, Trump, Brexit. Is it the 1930s all over again? Is shit gonna get real? Are we more polarised than ever before?


Things mentioned in this episode:

Recent Pew Research on polarisation: http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/political-polarization/2018/

Jonathan Wheatley on voter clustering: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-polarisation-of-party-supporters-since-2015/

Poole and Rosenthal’s original paper proposing metrics for polarisation in the US legislature: http://k7moa.com/pdf/Upside_Down-A_Spatial_Model_for_Legislative_Roll_Call_Analysis_1983.pdf

American Interest article proposing causes of polarisation: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/05/16/the-top-14-causes-of-political-polarization/

Brookings Institute on polarisation: https://www.brookings.edu/research/thinking-about-political-polarization/

YouGov survey of unrepresented views: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2018/08/01/where-most-fertile-ground-new-party/

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