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Cogent Social SciencesThis study investigated the mediational role of conviction in the relationship between media use and affective polarization, and the moderating role of age in this mediation. An online survey of 1,026 Korean adults examined ideological and gender issues.
Eun-Yeong Na
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News sharing on Twitter reveals emergent fragmentation of media agenda and persistent polarization
EPJ Data Science, 2022 News sharing on social networks reveals how information disseminates among users. This process, constrained by user preferences and social ties, plays a key role in the formation of public opinion.
Tomas Cicchini +3 more
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Party System Compactness: Measurement and Consequences [PDF]
, 2004 An important property of any party system is the set of choices it presents to the electorate. In this paper we analyze the distribution of parties relative to voters in the multidimensional issue space and introduce two measures of the dispersion of the
Alvarez, R. Michael, Nagler, Jonathan
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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 Kanovský, Nina Kocičová
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The News You Choose: News Media Preferences Amplify Views on Climate Change [PDF]
, 2018 How do choices among information sources reinforce political differences on topics such as climate change? Environmental sociologists have observed large-scale and long-term impacts from news media and think-tank reports, while experimental science ...
Bolin, Jessica L, Hamilton, Lawrence C.
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The Ethnic Origins of Affective Polarization: Statistical Evidence From Cross-National Data
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 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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Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2023 Political polarization on social media has been extensively studied. However, most research has examined polarization about topics that have preexisting associations with ideology, while few studies have tracked the onset of polarization about novel ...
Weize Zhao +2 more
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Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned.
Gardeazabal, Javier
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Political Polarization Mechanics on Persian Twitter (X): A Social Network Analysis of the 2024 Iranian Presidential Election [PDF]
Cyberspace StudiesBackground: The 2024 Iranian presidential election intensified political polarization on Persian Twitter (X), where ideological factions engaged in networked contestation.
Mahshid Shahidi +2 more
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Analyzing Ideological Communities in Congressional Voting Networks
, 2018 We here study the behavior of political party members aiming at identifying how ideological communities are created and evolve over time in diverse (fragmented and non-fragmented) party systems.
C Maso Dal +24 more
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