Negative partisanship, positive partisanship, and variation in climate policy attitudes on the political right [PDF]
PNAS NexusAbstract Conservatives are more likely than liberals to oppose climate policies, resulting in political polarization over climate change. Most research treats this gap as if it reflects two cohesive blocs on opposite sides of an issue.
Emily Huddart +3 more
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Promoting engagement with social fact-checks online: Investigating the roles of social connection and shared partisanship. [PDF]
PLoS ONESocial corrections - where users correct each other - can help rectify inaccurate beliefs. However, social corrections are often ignored. Here we ask under what conditions social corrections promote engagement from corrected users, allowing for greater ...
Cameron Martel +3 more
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“It’s a complicated issue”: exploring perspectives on Reddit from 2016 to 2024 about the American Psychiatric Association’s Goldwater Rule and the ethics of public-professional mental health commentary [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsIntroduction The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Goldwater Rule prohibits its member-psychiatrists from offering professional opinions on an individual’s mental health without direct evaluation or consent. While prior work has accentuated expert
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Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability
Scientific Reports, 2023 The affective polarization characteristic of the United States’ political climate contributes to pervasive intergroup tension. This tension polarizes basic aspects of person perception, such as face impressions.
Caraline S. Malloy +2 more
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For a Research Agenda on Negative Politics
Politics and Governance, 2022 This thematic issue deals with the “negative” side of politics, more specifically with dynamics of political aggressiveness and ideological opposition in voters and elites. Why do candidates “go negative” on their rivals?
Alessandro Nai +4 more
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Divide and Conquer: Disentangling Negative Partisanship and Affective Polarization [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 In this letter we argue that negative partisanship and affective polarization are intertwined yet distinct concepts: the first refers to identity, and the second refers to attitudes. Ignoring this distinction poses two problems at the empirical level – one of validity and one of analysis – because negative partisanship is a likely determinant for ...
Mayer, Sabrina J., Russo, Luana
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Negative Party Identification and the Use of Party Cues in the Direct Democratic Context
Politics and Governance, 2022 The use of party cues is a fundamental process of how voters adopt policy preferences. While research has shown that party identification is an important driver of political attitudes in general and policy positions in particular, we know little about ...
Maxime Walder, Oliver Strijbis
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‘Them’ without ‘us’: negative identities and affective polarization in Brazil
Political Research Exchange, 2022 High levels of hostility between those on opposing sides of politics have led to a burgeoning literature on the concept of affective polarization. Though a globally widespread phenomenon, extant literature has generated theoretical expectations and ...
João Areal
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A Scoping Review of Populist Radical Right Parties’ Influence on Welfare Policy and its Implications for Population Health in Europe [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021 BackgroundIn light of worrying public health developments such as declining life expectancy gains and increasing health inequalities, there is a heightened interest in the relationship between politics and health.
Chiara Rinaldi, Marleen P.M. Bekker
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How political partisanship can shape memories and perceptions of identical protest events.
PLoS ONE, 2021 It is well-recognized that increasingly polarized American partisans subscribe to sharply diverging worldviews. Can partisanship influence Americans to view the world around them differently from one another?
Eden Hennessey +2 more
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