‘A moment of complete change’: Rising political thinker Alan Elrod on status anxiety and the heartland

‘A moment of complete change’: Rising political thinker Alan Elrod on status anxiety and the heartland

Alan Elrod has a big brain for politics, and a big vision for the country. The founder of The Pulaski Institution, Elrod is using his think tank to study the threat of nationalism and overlooked regional dynamics in the larger political conversation.

The Rise in Political Polarization

The rise in political polarization has been identified as a top concern to organizations in a new political risk index that looks at the patterns in the world’s most vulnerable countries. The index analyses data from more than 200 countries. While political polarization brings an increased threat of workforce tensions, political volatility and political violence the index also looks at affective polarization, elite polarization and idealogical p…