In the Short Term We Divide, in the Long Term We Unite: Demographic Crisscrossing and the Effects of Faultlines on Subgroup Polarization

The authors thank Tobias Stark and André Grow, as well as the members of the Norms and Networks cluster at the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen and the members of the Cooperative Relations and Social Networks Seminar at the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University for their constructive comments. The authors are grateful for many helpful comments by the two anonymous reviewers. M. Mäs, A. Flache, and K. Takács acknowledge financial support of this research by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO, under the Innovative Research Incentives Scheme [NWO/VIDI-Flache, Grant 452-04-351].