Political polarization.
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.
Dixit
Avinash K
AK
Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. dixitak@princeton.edu
Weibull
Jörgen W
JW
D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011336:Probability