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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 ...
Mickael Melki, Andrew Pickering
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Electoral Studies, 2023 Previous literature has distinguished two types of polarization: ideological and affective. However, little is known on how the interconnection of these two polarizations (which we call overlapping polarization) varies depending on the political context. Is affective polarization always associated with ideological polarization?
Pedro Riera, Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga
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Frontiers in Political ScienceDemocrats and Republicans have polarized in their attitudes (i.e., ideological polarization) and their feelings toward each other (i.e., affective polarization).
Roderik Rekker, Roderik Rekker
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Ideological consistency and political polarization in Slovakia [PDF]
Human Affairs, 2018 AbstractThis article concerns the proposal and testing of a Slovak version of the Ideological Consistency Scale, which is a 10-item scale originally developed by the Pew Research Centre (2017). Its psychometric properties are investigated on a Slovak sample (N = 101). Its fit to the Rasch model with conditional maximum likelihood is tested.
Martin Kanovsky
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Party system ideological polarization in Western Europe: data, trends, drivers, and links with other key party system properties (1945–2021) [PDF]
Political Research ExchangeUnlike other key party system properties (e.g. fragmentation, volatility), polarization lacks a publicly available cross-national and longitudinal dataset that can be used as an established source among the scientific community. This article aims to fill
Vincenzo Emanuele, Bruno Marino
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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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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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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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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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Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media. [PDF]
Sci RepThe 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 the Russo-Ukrainian War--to investigate the structural dynamics of engagement.
Loru E +8 more
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