What Does Gen Z Think About Political Polarization?

The useful part

Students found that Gen Z is more optimistic than any other age group about the possibility of bridging the political divide in America. "Polarization doesn't seem to be a fixed trend in Gen Z's minds," said Jadon Urogdy. Polarization and the Road Ahead, a spring quarter course taught by Ashley Fabrizio, a Stanford alum and head of research at the nonpartisan think tank More in Common.

How it works

• Working with Fabrizio and her team, students created and conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,610 U.S.
• Fabrizio, who has taught the course for three years, has found that working with students surfaces concerns that standard polling may miss.
• Working in small groups, students were allocated several minutes of survey time to explore topics such as the political influence of online content promoting masculinity—aka...
• adults that oversampled Gen Z to provide a more granular look into their political attitudes and opinions.

Details worth keeping

Polarization is a fact of political life in the U.S.