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Opposite Universes. A Focus on the Ideological Polarization of the Italian Electorate

Partecipazione e Conflitto
The morphological character of ideologies is closely related to the context in which they manifest themselves (Freeden, 2008). Furthermore, political polarisation is the tendency for the concentration of political supply mainly around two opposing poles (
Melissia Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri
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Why Elections Prompt More Corruption, Clientelism, and Forbearance? A Study of Attitudes in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia

Comparative Southeast European Studies
Corruption is often defined as the abuse of public functions for private gain, but research has expanded this view to include clientelism and forbearance, particularly in neo-patrimonial contexts.
Imami Drini, Polese Abel
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Towards Transformative Climate Governance: Capacities and Constraints for Local Government in Aotearoa New Zealand

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka, Anna L. Berka, Karen F. Hytten, Florentine D. van Noppen   +3 more
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“We Are Willing to Change, If…”: Potential Impacts of Citizens' Assemblies on the Willingness to Change for Sustainability in Rural East German Municipalities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
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Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
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Left Wanting and Left Unheard: A Dual Grievance Model of Populism Across Six European Countries

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study tests a dual grievance model of populism by examining whether relative deprivation and external political inefficacy are linked to two core dimensions of populist beliefs (people sovereignty and anti‐elitism) via aversive political emotions (anger, sadness and fear) and institutional distrust across six European countries (N = 5487).
Anna Cortijos‐Bernabeu, Matteo Cavallaro, Christian Staerklé   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conspiracy Theory Endorsement Profiles: A Cluster Validation Study

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of research has investigated the determinants of conspiratorial beliefs, yet little is known about different conspiracy theory endorsement profiles. The present study used cluster analysis on a set of 52 conspiratorial statements tapping into six conspiracy theory types to identify and validate conspiracy theory endorsement ...
Otto Mäki, Eetu Marttila, Tuomo Häikiö, Daria Pritup, Kaisa Elovaara, Pasi Kivioja, Johanna K. Kaakinen   +6 more
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Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affective polarisation, a growing hostility toward political outgroups, is a phenomenon rooted in social identity. Social identity threat—the expectation of experiencing some form of denigration based on a self‐relevant group identity—is thought to be a major driver of affective polarisation.
Brandon McMurtrie, Matt Williams, Michael Philipp, Anja Roemer, Ross Hebden   +4 more
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A Longitudinal Comparison of the Effects of Election Outcomes on System Legitimacy in the United Kingdom and United States

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using three‐wave panel data from the United Kingdom (N = 604) and the United States (N = 512), we examined changes in system‐legitimization across the 2024 electoral cycle and whether trajectories differed for electoral winners and losers. In both countries, system‐legitimization increased after the election, suggesting that elections function
Evan A. Valdes, Rosalind Searle, James H. Liu, Cornelia Sindermann   +3 more
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Habitat type and electoral behavior: contextual effects on differential abstention in Andalusia (2011-2012)

Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2015
Election studies have identified several mechanisms through which changing patterns of electoral behavior among different types of elections in multilevel government systems can be observed.
José M. Trujillo, Carmen Ortega, Juan Montabes   +2 more
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