Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Preventing Extreme Polarization of Political Attitudes   Extreme polarization can undermine democracy by making compromise impossible
and transforming politics into a zero-sum game. Ideological polarization - the
extent to which political views are widely dispersed - is already strong among
elites, but less so among the general public (McCarty, 2019, p. 50-68). Strong
mutual distrust and hostility between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S.,
combined with the elites' already strong ideological polarization, could lead
to increasing ideological polarization among the public. The paper addresses
two questions: (1) Is there a level of ideological polarization above which
polarization feeds upon itself to become a runaway process? (2) If so, what
policy interventions could prevent such dangerous positive feedback loops? To
explore these questions, we present an agent-based model of ideological
polarization that differentiates between the tendency for two actors to
interact (exposure) and how they respond when interactions occur, positing that
interaction between similar actors reduces their difference while interaction
between dissimilar actors increases their difference. Our analysis explores the
effects on polarization of different levels of tolerance to other views,
responsiveness to other views, exposure to dissimilar actors, multiple
ideological dimensions, economic self-interest, and external shocks. The
results suggest strategies for preventing, or at least slowing, the development
of extreme polarization.

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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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