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Ideology, communication and polarization

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021
Ideologically committed minds form the basis of political polarization, but ideologically guided communication can further entrench and exacerbate polarization depending on the structures of ideologies and social network dynamics on which cognition and communication operate.
Yoshihisa Kashima   +3 more
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Ideological polarization and the media [PDF]

open access: possibleEconomics Letters, 2014
Greater media presence may facilitate information transmission and consensus or amplify existing political differences. In the OECD greater media penetration is strongly correlated with reduced ideological polarization. Media penetration increases lead reductions in polarization, suggesting that this relationship is causal.
Mickael Melki, Andrew Pickering
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Affective Polarization Amplifies Ideological Polarization

2022
Uncovering the causes and foundations of increasing political polarization poses a pressing open problem to all social sciences. Here, we report results from an online experiment with a representative sample of the US population, deployed the week before the 2020 US presidential election, to analyze the role of affective polarization and social ...
Bauer, Kevin   +3 more
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Dynamic Elections and Ideological Polarization

Political Analysis, 2017
How does political polarization affect the welfare of the electorate? We analyze this question using a framework in which two policy and office motivated parties compete in an infinite sequence of elections. We propose two novel measures to describe the degree of conflict among agents:antagonismis the disagreement between parties;extremismis the ...
NUNNARI, SALVATORE, Zápal, Jan
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How Ideology Fuels Affective Polarization

Political Behavior, 2015
Scholars have reached mixed conclusions about the implications of increased political polarization for citizen decision-making. In this paper, we argue that citizens respond to ideological divergence with heightened affective polarization. Using a survey experiment conducted with a nationally representative sample of U.S.
Jon C. Rogowski, Joseph L. Sutherland
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Political Regimes, Party Ideological Homogeneity and Polarization

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
We develop a model of elections in which parties choose their ideological position and the ideology of their candidates. Tighter candidate selection reduces policy uncertainty for voters. We show that weak institutional constraints, as in a Presidential regime, induce parties to allow their candidates to be ideologically heterogeneous.
Castanheira, Micael, Crutzen, Benoit S Y
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Ideological Polarization and Social Psychology

2021
Ideology is a recurrent feature of human societies. Ideologies provide people with frameworks to evaluate the relative legitimacy of different approaches to social order. Such ideologies often involve an opposition between right-leaning ideologies, which tend to justify and maintain the traditional order, and left-leaning ideologies, which advocate for
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Modeling ideological polarization in democratic party systems

Electoral Studies, 2021
Abstract There are mounting claims that increasing ideological polarization is reshaping democratic party systems with important effects on the functioning of electoral politics, the correlates of voting choice, turnout, and even the representativeness of government. Yet, our knowledge of what causes party system polarization is still developing. The
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Fake news and ideological polarization

Business Information Review, 2017
This article addresses questions of ideological polarization and the filter bubble in social media. It develops a theoretical analysis of ideological polarization on social media by considering a range of relevant factors. Over recent years, fake news and the effect of the social media filter bubble have become of increasing importance both in academic
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