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Finding the Water’s Edge: When Negative Partisanship Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes
International Politics, 2021In moments of international crisis, US presidents have historically rallied public support by evoking the national identity. Affective polarization undermines the salience of national identities and threatens to carry domestic divisions across the water’s edge. Does affective polarization reduce individuals’ support for military action?
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Out-Party Cues and Factual Beliefs in an Era of Negative Partisanship
Journal of Political Marketing, 2021The rise of negative partisanship raises the possibility that perceptions of what the partisan out-group believes on a factual matter could serve as a cue for one’s own factual beliefs.
Suhwoo Ahn +4 more
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Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?
European Journal of Political Research, 2021AbstractParty identification is a well‐documented force in political behaviour. However, the vast majority of work on partisanship considers only its positive side, rather than recognizing that partisan identities may also have a negative component. Recent work has shown that negative partisanship has important effects, such as reinforcing partisan ...
CAMERON D. ANDERSON +2 more
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Enemy Mine: Negative Partisanship and Satisfaction with Democracy
Political Behavior, 2020Polarization has increased in recent decades, including emotional distance between partisans. While positive partisan identity has been linked to the absorption of democratic norms and democratic satisfaction, this article addresses the impact of negative partisanship on citizens’ satisfaction with the functioning of their democracies.
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Negative Partisanship: Why Americans Dislike Parties But Behave Like Rabid Partisans
Political Psychology, 2018One of the most important developments in American politics over the last 40 years has been the rise of negative partisanship—the phenomenon whereby Americans largely align against one party instead of affiliating with the other. Though it has the power to reshape patterns of political behavior, little is known about the microfoundations driving ...
Alan I. Abramowitz, Steven W. Webster
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Negative and Positive Partisanship in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections
Political Behavior, 2020Negative partisanship captures the notion that disdain for the opposing party is not necessarily accompanied by strong in-party attachments. Yet, lack of a theoretical framework as well as measurement issues have prevented researchers from utilizing this consequential concept. I address these concerns in several ways.
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Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics
Political StudiesThis piece provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between personality and affective orientations (both positive and negative) towards political parties in a multi-party system. Using data from an original survey of nearly 1500 Canadians, it considers the questions of how personality traits are related to positive and negative partisanship,
R Michael McGregor +2 more
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Seeing Spots: Partisanship, Negativity and the Conditional Receipt of Campaign Advertisements
Political Behavior, 2017Changes in the media landscape increasingly put voters in control of the amount and type of political content they consume. We develop a novel experiment to assess the factors that drive this conditional receipt of information. We focus on how party source and tone interact with partisanship to influence the campaign messages voters seek out or avoid ...
John A. Henderson +1 more
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The Power of the Dark Side: Negative Partisanship and Political Behaviour in Canada
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2014AbstractThe origins and implications of partisan identification are well-studied, but negative partisan attitudes—dislike for a particular party—have escaped such scrutiny, even as the politics of negativity enjoys sustained popularity, especially come election time.
Nicholas J. Caruana +2 more
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The Decline of Political Partisanship in the United States: Negativity or Neutrality?
American Political Science Review, 1981This article examines attitudes towards the two major political parties in the United States from 1952 to 1980, using national election study data from open-ended likes/dislikes questions. The major trend which is found is a shift toward neutral evaluations of the parties.
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