Divisiveness and Collaboration in American Public Life: A Hidden Common Ground Report

This inaugural Public Agenda/USA Today/Ipsos Hidden Common Ground survey examines how Americans view divisiveness and partisan divides in public life and offers a number of solutions to build a more collaborative society, despite our social and political differences.

Overall, the research shows a good deal of cross-partisan agreement on the need to move beyond the divisiveness that Americans believe plagues our politics and public life. Encouragingly, there is common ground across party lines on some specific approaches to move beyond this friction. CONT.

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