Sam Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University and author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era. His writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, The New York Times, and Vox.
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Sam Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University and author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era. His writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, The New York Times, and Vox.
Some think it would cure two-party gridlock. But what works in parliamentary governments might not help in our presidential system.
We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.
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