Naomi Leonard uses the tools of nonlinear dynamics to investigate what drives political polarization of US lawmakers

While it is well-documented that Americans are not as polarized as the people they elect, a study led by Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton’s Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Keena Lipsitz, associate professor of political science at Queens College, CUNY, with Princeton doctoral student Anastasia Bizyaeva shows that Americans are still partly to blame for the extremism of their elected officials.  

New York Times feature article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/opinion/republicans-democracy-minori…
Princeton News article here: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/12/09/political-polarization-and-it…
Link to the study here: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/50/e2102149118