title: Political polarization.
abstract: Failures of government policies often provoke opposite reactions from citizens; some call for a reversal of the policy, whereas others favor its continuation in stronger form. We offer an explanation of such polarization, based on a natural bimodality of preferences in political and economic contexts and consistent with Bayesian rationality.
authors: Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. dixitak@princeton.edu
authors: Avinash K
authors: AK
authors: Dixit
authors: Jörgen W
authors: JW
authors: Weibull
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011336:Probability