This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how media environments, characterized by their levels of accessibility and variety of content, interact with citizens' ideological views and ...
Campante, Filipe R., Hojman, Daniel
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Is Twitter a Public Sphere for Online Conflicts? A Cross-Ideological and Cross-Hierarchical Look
, 2014 The rise in popularity of Twitter has led to a debate on its impact on public opinions. The optimists foresee an increase in online participation and democratization due to social media's personal and interactive nature.
C.R. Sunstein +8 more
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Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support. [PDF]
Acta Polit, 2023 van Elsas E, Fiselier T.
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Who polarizes Twitter? Ideological polarization, partisan groups and strategic networked campaigning on Twitter during the 2017 and 2021 German Federal elections 'Bundestagswahlen'. [PDF]
Soc Netw Anal Min, 2022 Darius P.
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Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological Polarization [PDF]
Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2006 Over 40 years ago, Daniel Bell made the provocative claim that ideological polarization was diminishing in Western democracies, but new ideologies were emerging and driving politics in developing nations. This article tests the End of Ideology thesis with a new wave of public opinion data from the World Values Survey (WVS) that covers over 70 nations ...
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Lingüistic 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.
Javier Gardeazabal
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Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework [PDF]
How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their ...
Mattias Polborn, Stefan Krasa
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Polarization of Muslim Voters in the 2024 Regional Elections in North Maluku
PoliticosPolitical polarization among Muslim voters in the 2024 Regional Elections (Pilkada) in North Maluku is a complex phenomenon shaped by the legacy of historical conflicts (1999–2002), religious identity, and colonial power structures.
Aji Deni
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Divided Opinion: The Interactional Accomplishment of Ideological Antagonism
Journal of Social and Political PsychologyThis paper analyzes the public expression of ideological antagonism as an interactional accomplishment with reference to one of Spain’s most polarized contemporary issues: Catalan independence.
Daniel Balinhas, Cristian Tileaga
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Memory and Personality Shape Ideological Polarization
We do experiments on physical agents with dynamic binary ideologies, deep memories of previous probes of neigboring agents, but fixed personalities that interpret the memory content to make ideological decisions. We find experimentally a critical memory depth below which complete ideological polarization of the collective cannot occur, and above which ...
Li, Shengkai +7 more
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