Threats as Political Communication

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Nathan P. Kalmoe

Nathan P. Kalmoe is executive director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written three scholarly books, two dozen academic articles, and many public essays on contentious politics and democratization, with particular focus on messaging effects, partisanship, violence, identity, and ideology to inform national discussions. His research on mass politics integrates political science, communication, psychology, and history with a wide range of social science methods. Kalmoe’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other popular outlets. He was associate professor of political communication at Louisiana State University before moving home to Wisconsin.

Lilliana Mason

Lilliana Mason is SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Her research combines the fields of social psychology, sociology, and political science to examine American political behavior. Her work on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American attitudes toward political violence has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.