Partisan (In)Tolerance and Affective Polarization
Political tolerance of others’ civil liberties is an essential and everyday condition of democratic politics without which citizens cannot engage constructively with those of different views.
James Tilley +2 more
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Narcissism and Affective Polarization. [PDF]
Abstract There are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and ideological sorting, we ask whether people’s personalities are associated with friendliness to their political in-group and hostility to ...
Tilley J, Hobolt S.
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Affective Polarization: Not Always Between Ingroup Vs Outgroup (Evidence from Twitter Conversation with Keywords Jokowi and PDIP) [PDF]
The current development of information technology has transformed the form of public participation in politics. Political participation not only occurs in the real world but also in virtual spaces, and this is a manifestation of a smart society. Forms of
Putri Nur.A.Dwi +3 more
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Affective Polarization in Comparative and Longitudinal Perspective. [PDF]
Abstract Existent research shows that affective polarization has been intensifying in some publics, diminishing in others, and remaining stable in most. We contribute to this debate by providing the most encompassing comparative and longitudinal account of affective polarization so far.
Garzia D, Ferreira da Silva F, Maye S.
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The Ethnic Origins of Affective Polarization: Statistical Evidence From Cross-National Data
Because the debate over the sources of affective polarization has so far mostly focused on the US case, scholars have rarely considered whether the politicization of ethnic differences—when elections and representative processes happen along ethnic lines—
Max Bradley, Simon Chauchard
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Exploring the formation dynamics of affective polarization by considering coupled feedback
Polarization issues are generally subject to ideological and affective polarization. Particularly, affective polarization generally accelerates the polarization process.
Peng-Bi Cui
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Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization
What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to polarization in the form of intergroup distancing between the own party and the other parties.
Emma A. Renström +2 more
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Affective polarization within parties
Abstract Politics is increasingly a major source of social division, and party identities are theorized to be major drives of political hostility. However, parties often contain factions who are deeply hostile towards one another.
David J. Young, Lee de-Wit
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Affective polarization and coalition preferences in times of pandemic
Using the RepResent Voter Panel Survey conducted in Belgium since the 2019 Federal elections, we investigate the relationship between affective polarization and voters' coalition preferences, in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results confirm a
Luca Bettarelli, Emilie Van Haute
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The virus of polarization: online debates about Covid-19 in Germany
To what extent do online debates display features of political polarization and in how far does polarization pose a problem for democracy? We zoom in on affective polarization: the formation of societal groups with hostile feelings towards each other ...
Fabiana Schmid +2 more
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