Ideological polarization during a pandemic: Tracking the alignment of attitudes toward COVID containment policies and left-right self-identification [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Research on opinion polarization has focused on growing divides in positions toward political issues between the more politically and ideologically engaged parts of the population.
Stephan Dochow-Sondershaus
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Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 SignificanceIdeological polarization around environmental issues—especially climate change—have increased in the last 20 years. This polarization has led to public uncertainty, and in some cases, policy stalemate. Much attention has been given to understanding individual attitudes, but much less to the larger organizational and financial roots of ...
Farrell J.
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Ideological polarization and government debt [PDF]
International Tax and Public Finance, 2021 AbstractModels of strategic debt predict that public debt increases with polarization, measured by the ideological distance between the government and its likely successor. Conversely if voters are both short-termist and also more likely to switch their vote for parties offering higher spending and public good provision when the electorate is ...
Melki, Mickael +1 more
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Multifaceted polarization and information reliability in climate change discussions on social media platforms [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceSocial media platforms like YouTube and Twitter play a key role in disseminating both reliable and unreliable information about climate change. This study analyses the topology of interactions in Twitter and their relation to cross-platform sharing ...
Aleix Bassolas +3 more
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Emergence of Polarized Ideological Opinions in Multidimensional Topic Spaces [PDF]
Physical Review X, 2021 Opinion polarization is on the rise, causing concerns for the openness of public debates. Additionally, extreme opinions on different topics often show significant correlations.
Fabian Baumann +3 more
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Predictors of mayoral reelection in Romanian local elections. Long-term analysis 1996–2016 [PDF]
HeliyonThis study aims to analyze the mayoral reelection rates in Romanian local elections between 1996 and 2016, a period marked by significant economic and political transitions.
Corneliu Iațu +2 more
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Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe abundance of information on social media has reshaped public discussions, shifting attention to the mechanisms that drive online discourse. This study analyzes large-scale Twitter (now X) data from three global debates—Climate Change, COVID-19, and ...
Edoardo Loru +8 more
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New Frontiers for Political Communication in Times of Spectacularization
Media and Communication, 2023 Political spectacularization is a broad global phenomenon challenging contemporary digital political communication under new features that define interactive digital narratives.
Salvador Gómez-García +2 more
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Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016 [PDF]
, 2021 In this article we examine party sorting, elite cue and ideological polarization accounts of polarization dynamics. We test their differing expectations about trends in redistributive ideological polarization and partisan polarization in the British case
Cohen, Gidon, Cohen, Sarah
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Becoming an Ideologue: Social Sorting and the Microfoundations of Polarization
Sociological Science, 2022 This article elaborates and tests the hypothesis that the sociopolitical segregation of interpersonal networks (i.e., social sorting) is at the root of recent polarization trends in the United States.
Craig M. Rawlings
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