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The rise of negative partisanship and the nationalization of U.S. elections in the 21st century
Electoral Studies, 2016One of the most important developments affecting electoral competition in the United States has been the increasingly partisan behavior of the American electorate. Yet more voters than ever claim to be independents. We argue that the explanation for these seemingly contradictory trends is the rise of negative partisanship.
Steven W Webster
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Elite Cues, Negative Partisanship, and the Changing Media Landscape
2023Abstract Chapter 2 empirically demonstrates the growth in strong partisanship and negative partisanship, and the relationship of these trends to the changing media environment. It shows that the share of the public that identifies as independent has remained stable over time.
Joshua J Dyck, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz
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Negative partisanship among Independents in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections
Electoral Studies, 2022Alexa Bankert
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Negative Partisanship in Latin America
Latin American Politics and Society, 2022ABSTRACTThe literature on comparative partisanship has demonstrated the low rates of party identification in Latin America. Such low rates are commonly interpreted as a sign of citizens’ disengagement with parties and democracy in the region. This article revisits this interpretation by considering voters’ adverse affection toward a party, or negative ...
Agustina Haime, Francisco Cantú
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Do Elite Appeals to Negative Partisanship Stimulate Citizen Engagement?
The Forum, 2022Abstract Scholars have extensively studied whether campaign attack advertisements –messages that attack individual candidates– mobilize or demobilize voters with mixed results. We argue that group-oriented partisan affect in campaigns –messages about the parties in general– is just as important given increasing trends of affective ...
Mia Costa +8 more
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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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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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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 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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Crafting Negative Partisanship in Brazil and the Rise of Bolsonaro
The present study intends to assess the impact of three different events that made negative partisanship significant to understand the rise of far-right populist, Jair Bolsonaro: the religious demographic transition driven by Pentecostal evangelicals; the political activism of the Brazilian justice system and its mutualistic relationship with legacy ...Carlos Henrique Vieira Santana +1 more
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