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Ryan D. Enos

Ryan D. Enos, an associate professor of government at Harvard, is the author of the new book The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics, from which this essay draws. Find him on Twitter @RyanDEnos

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Political scientists use new tools — and draw on psychology — to explain how and why “social geography” shapes attitudes.

By Ryan D. Enos