This list of resources is meant to give Resilience+ members a collection of ideas, tools, and organizations that can help them better understand and respond to political polarization. With this list, we focused on a handful in each category we thought might be most beneficial, with an admitted focus on English-speaking and Global North-oriented resources. Thanks to Nichole Argo, Trisha Dehrone, and Brooke Burrows for helping to prepare this list.
Books
- Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History by Peter Turchin
- Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World by john a. powell and Stephen Menendian
- The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage (interviewed as part of this Deep Dive)
- Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization, edited by Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donahue
- Ecology and the politics of scarcity: Prologue to a political theory of the steady state by William Ophuls
- End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
- Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society One Zipcode at a Time by Seth Kaplan
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblat
- I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzman
- Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy by Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason (panelist for an event included in this Deep Dive)
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