Negative partisanship and the populist radical right: The case of Norway
AbstractWith the rise and influence of populist radical right (PRR) parties in Western European democracies, research has focused on explaining the PRR vote. We know less about the reasons why many people would never vote for these parties. Recent research has pointed out that negative partisanship may be particularly prominent in the case of PRR ...
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Affective polarization in a word: Open-ended and self-coded evaluations of partisan affect.
The literature finds that partisanship drives negative emotional evaluations of out-partisans. Yet, scholars base these insights on measures-like thermometers, candidate evaluations, and social-distance measures-that discount the sentiment attached to ...
Spencer Kiesel, Sharif Amlani
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How partisanship and sexism influence voters’ reactions to political #MeToo scandals
Influential theories of motivated reasoning, as well as real-world anecdotal examples, would suggest that voters do not always penalize legislators from their own party for alleged immoral behavior, such as sexual harassment.
Mia Costa +8 more
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Public opinion concerning governments' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ObjectivesGovernments around the world have implemented numerous policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This research examines the political issues resulting in public opinion concerning their responses to the pandemic via an international ...
Cathy W S Chen, Tsai-Hung Fan
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Negative partisanship and affective polarization
Research on the roots of affective polarization has often emphasized the role played by social identities, whereby identifying with a political party may lead to hostility towards the ‘other side’ of politics. Whilst fruitful, this approach does not account for the many citizens who feel strongly repelled by a particular party and yet feel attached to ...
Luana Russo, João Areal
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Mind the Gap? Negative Tweets & Partisanship in the House of Representatives [PDF]
How does the lack of institutional legislative power and influence in the House of Representatives shape politicians’ rhetoric? In previous work, we found evidence that members of Congress in the minority and the party opposing the president were more negative in the language they used on Twitter.
Maggie Macdonald, Whitney Hua
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Public attitudes about emergent issues in LGBTQ rights: Conversion therapy and religious refusals
Following legal recognition of marriages for same-sex couples, new topics have emerged in debates over LGBT rights. While numerous studies of public opinion about gay and transgender rights have been examined, some emergent issues remain underexamined ...
Andrew R. Flores +2 more
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Financial corruption; interaction of agents and defective structure [PDF]
One of the most important challenges facing governments is corruption, which includes embezzlement, fraud, rent-seeking, misuse and betrayal of the treasury.
Seyed Samad Beheshti +3 more
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Individual narcissism, need for closure and the two sides of negative partisanship
Usual studies of the underpinnings of partisan attachments only consider positive party identifications and the Big Five framework. However, negative party identification is an important understudied side of party identification that affects democratic dissatisfaction and political conflict.
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Positive and Negative Partisanship
Partisanship is omnipresent in American politics. Even in European multiparty systems and emerging democracies in Africa, attachments to political parties form easily, enduringly, and almost instantly. Given its potent role in impacting citizens’ political attitudes and behavior, it is no surprise that political scientists have dedicated a tremendous ...
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