Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization

We thank James Adams, Klaus Desmet, John Duca, Ray Fair, Morris Fiorina, Greg Huber, Shanto Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, Rishi Kishore, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthew Levendusky, Neil Malhotra, Greg Martin, Eoin McGuirk, Pippa Norris, Carlo Schwarz, Sean Westwood, and seminar participants at the DC Political Economy Center Webinar, Stanford University, the Brown Data Science Initiative, the CREST Reading Group on Political Economy, and the American Economic Association for their comments and suggestions. We thank Lenka Drazanova and Philipp Rehm for sharing data, Dina Smeltz for sharing survey questionnaires, Rune Stubager for providing questionnaire translations, Will Horne for assistance with the CSES data, and Marc Swyngedouw for answering inquiries about the Belgium National Election Study. We also thank our many dedicated research assistants for their contributions to this project. We acknowledge funding from the Population Studies and Training Center, the Eastman Professorship, and the JP Morgan Chase Research Assistant Program at Brown University, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the Institute for Humane Studies, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Toulouse Network for Information Technology. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1656518. The research was also sponsored by the Army Research Office under Grant Number
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