Political scientist at Harvard for three decades, Vice President of the World Values Survey, & founding Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
And for deteriorating freedom of expression, tho Brazil was already sliding downwards..
2/Republican voters are some of the most conservative towards abortion & homosexuality across 19 Western democracies; by contrast, Democrats are fairly mainstream. 
2/ The book used data available from the 2014 CHES & the 2002-2014 ESS. 
The authors theorize that both rapid cultural change and economic pressure can create uncertain and dangerous threats leading to populism. But this both-sideism is the issue at the heart of the debate. Can both sides be right?
Source: worldvaluessurvey.org
2/10 Theory 
2/ 'Contentious elections’ are defined as contests involving major challenges, with different degrees of severity, to the legitimacy of electoral actors, procedures, or outcomes. 
2/ Academics in political science skew moderate left - especially in America. Confirms long-standing body of research since Lazarsfeld (1958). But the imbalance doesn't necessarily mean growing intolerance of dissent and contrarian voices. 
2/ And compared with 2016, Biden broadens the Dem coalition by picking up Independents (+8) and Moderates (+6)... 
2. But it would be misleading to read Hungarian public opinion directly from the actions of the Orban regime. 
/2 Definitiopn of Populism 