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I have the honor to share the Handbook of Affective Polarization that I co-edit with Eelco Harteveld. It is open access, pre-registered preprint: Torcal, M., & Harteveld, E. (2024, November 1). Handbook of Affective Polarization. doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… UPF Barcelona RECSM-UPF

This handbook is an amazing resource for scholars who are interested in polarization from a comparative perspective. I was glad to contribute a chapter together with Will Horne and Jim Adams.

Excited this is out, it’s a great resource! lots of great chapters, honored to have my chapter with Noam Gidron and Jim Adams included

I can see people already want to make this about their particular thing, but I think it's just inflation and anti-incumbent sentiment above everything

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via John Burn-Murdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

I see many folks dunking on this saying the "consumer sentiment" is just partisanship, so I'll bite: it's actually a good measure of how people feel about the economy! The index is mostly about expectations (3 out of 5 items), and the sample average clearly captures relevant

I need every Democratic elected official in America to read this paragraph by Ezra Klein

by far the most realistic part of ancient greek myths is the part where the prophets tell them exactly what's going to happen and they get really mad at them and ignore them and then it comes true and they get even madder and ignore them harder.

Millennial supremacy in this chart. Everyone 10 years older than me has their brain rotted by cable news and lead poisoning, everyone 10 years younger than me has had their brain rotted by TikTok's algorithm.

An all-time home run trot from Junior Caminero with an incredible call to match.

THIS IS HOW IT ENDS Absolute cinema

Interesting new theory of democratic governance, which is that the people running US spending policy across all government agencies should both a) remain anonymous; and b) not be required to publicly disclose outside work and investments

Very excited to share our new paper with Will Horne, James Adams, Simon Weschle, and Christopher Wlezien!! Out today @JEPOP tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… A short thread 🧵 1/n

I really don't know what to do about people who are just this fundamentally broken epistemologically. If you can hear someone say we spent a billion dollars on a single survey and not immediately assume they're lying, you are quite literally not in touch with reality.

This tariff pause is going to be very bad for the factory I started building last week

Sorry but, neighborhoods like Vahi are now some of the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in the city because people like this have kept them frozen in amber. We need more housing, not million dollar property values.

I’m shattered over the sudden loss of my friend, Matt Arco. I first met Matt when I was a baby reporter in New Jersey and he was a big shot politics reporter. We quickly became friends. nj.com/politics/2025/…

Thinking about immigration from a cultural perspective heightens distrust of political opponents, as discussed in our recent British Jnl Poli Sci. Might interest scholars of affective polarization and ideology, as well as those analyzing open-ended survey questions. cup.org/3ZajcQ1