The Roots & Impact of Tribalism

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Center for the Political Future Executive Director Kamy Akhavan moderates a panel on the roots and rise of tribalism on American life, past and present, its impact on the state of politics and governance in America, and the role of political leaders in worsening the trend or reversing it.

The panelists include:

Ron Christie - Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney

Stevan Hobfoll - Author, “Tribalism: The Evolutionary Origins of Fear Politics”

Jonas Kaplan - USC Dornsife Assistant Research Professor of Psychology; Co-Director, Dornsife Neuroimaging Center

Alison Renteln - USC Dornsife Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Philosophy, Public Policy and Law

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
0:11.4	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect each other
0:22.2	and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. I'm Bob Shrum, the Warsaw professor of the
0:32.0	practice of politics, and the director of the Center for the Political Future here at USC Dornsife,
0:41.3	along with my long-term adversary in the political battlefield, and the Director of the Center for the Political Future here at USC Dornsyth, along with my long-term adversary in the political battlefield, and the center's co-director, Mike Murphy.
0:43.3	Let me welcome you to a conference aptly titled the Disunited States of America, focusing on how tribalism has pushed us into our own corners,
0:53.3	where we too often dispense with inconvenient
0:56.2	facts and disdain those with whom we disagree. I want to thank our panelists, and in particular,
1:02.9	John Patsakis and Kevin Biggs begs for their generous gifts that made today possible. Ken Brod and
1:09.6	Jonathan Goldman have also made major contributions.
1:13.0	And my colleague in the Department of Political Science and International Relations,
1:17.2	Alison Dundell's Renthelm, who has been integral in this whole effort from the very start.
1:22.9	Our mission at the center is to model and advance a dialogue where we respect each other and respect the truth, where we do our part to bring the academy into the public square, and where we prepare a new generation of students to be involved in the great debates and the great decisions of our time and theirs.
1:40.2	Our goal today is to have a constructive dialogue about political tribalism.
1:44.9	We ask all of you, our speakers, and those who will be asking questions, to be not only candid, but civil toward one another.
1:52.5	Now let me introduce Kamiakavan, our executive director and the former CEO of ProCon.org, the nation's leading resource on controversial issues. He will
2:02.5	moderate our first panel on the roots and impact of political tribalism. Kami. Thank you very much,
2:08.3	Bob. For those you can't see me, I'll just stand up at the very beginning here. This is the first
2:12.9	panel. Welcome. I wanted to tell you a little bit about what we have in store, at least for this first
2:19.6	panel. I will initially provide some context about tribalism, political polarization, and give you
2:26.6	some scary statistics. We're going to discuss, I will introduce our panel, and we will discuss
2:32.2	what is tribalism.
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