Books Written
With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties.
Kalmoe and Mason find that ordinary partisanship is far more dangerous than pundits and scholars have recognized. However, these findings are not a forecast of inevitable doom; the current climate also brings opportunities to confront democratic threats head-on and to create a more inclusive politics.
BOOK CHAPTERS
(9) Mason, Lilliana. 2025. “I vote the issues, not the party” in We Hold These “Truths”: How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back. Author’s Equity.
(8) Mason, Lilliana and Luca Versteegen. 2025. “Social Sorting” in Handbook of Affective Polarization. Edited by Eelco Harteveld and Mariano Torcal Loriente.
(7) Mason, Lilliana. 2023. “Political Identity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (Third Edition). Edited by Leonie Huddy, David Sears, Jack Levy, and Jennifer Jerit.
(6) Banda, Kevin, John Cluverius, Lilliana Mason, Hans Noel. 2022. “Ideological Divisions Within the Democratic Primary Electorate.” In Polarization and Political Party Factions in the 2020 Election. Edited by Jennifer C. Lucas Christopher J. Galdieri, and Tauna S. Sisco. - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666906981/Polarization-and-Political-Party-Factions-in-the-2020-Election
(5) Mason, Lilliana and Nathan Kalmoe. 2021. “The Social Roots, Risks, and Rewards of Mass Polarization.” In Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization? Edited by Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth M. Roberts. Cambridge University Press. -
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108999601(4) Kalmoe, Nathan and Lilliana Mason. Forthcoming. “Stealth Fighters: Extreme Partnership in Independent Learners.” In Reconsidering Parties. Edited by Chris Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope. University of Michigan Press.
(3) Mason, Lilliana, Julie Wronski, John Kane. Forthcoming. “Rallying Hate: How Trump Support is Not Normal Partisanship.” In Reconsidering Parties. Edited by Chris Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope. University of Michigan Press.
(2) Mason, Lilliana. 2017. “Partisanship.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior. SAGE Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks, 575-579. - https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/book/sage-encyclopedia-political-behavior#description
(1) Mason, Lilliana. 2015. “Party Polarization is Making Us More Prejudiced.” In Political Polarization in American Politics, eds. Daniel J. Hopkins and John Sides. Bloomsbury Academic, 55-60. - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/political-polarization-in-american-politics-9781501306297/