American politics requires candidates to separate 鈥渦s鈥 from 鈥渢hem,鈥 motivating people to look for differences rather than commonalities. Dr. David C. Wilson, dean of the Goldman School at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Professor of Public Policy, argues that polarization across a host of dimensions鈥攊ncluding racial, gender, partisan, religious, and ideological groupings鈥攔esults from what people want from candidates more so that who candidates are.
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