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A Critical Literature Review of New Party Success in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]

Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics, 2022
The paper offers a critical literature review of existing explanations for new party success in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of communism in 1989.
Yuxiang Lin
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Affective polarization in low-partisanship societies. The case of Chile 1990–2021

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
Does the decline in party identification lead to a decrease or an increase in affective polarization? In recent years, research about affective polarization has increased, asking whether contemporary publics polarize in terms of their affective ...
C. Segovia
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Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Selective Belief: How Partisanship Drives Belief in Misinformation

International Journal of Communication, 2021
The use of disinformation in political campaigns is not a new phenomenon, but the issue has acquired renewed attention because digital media makes it relatively easier to spread disinformation.
Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Burhanuddin Muhtadi   +1 more
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Political attitude change over time following COVID-19 lockdown: Rallying effects and differences between left and right voters

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 have required widespread compliance over long periods, but citizens’ attitudes to these often change over time.
Nicole Satherley, Elena Zubielevitch, Lara M. Greaves, Fiona Kate Barlow, Danny Osborne, Chris G. Sibley   +5 more
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State mask mandates and psychological reactance theory: The role of political partisanship and COVID-19 risk in mask adoption and resistance

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2022
Rationale Psychological reactance theory was applied to examine the implications of state-level mask mandates in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the role of political partisanship and COVID-19 risk on changes in self-reported
Stephen A. Rains, P. Colombo, B. Quick, Lauren A. Kriss   +3 more
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“The New State That We Are Building”: Authoritarianism and System-Justification in an Illiberal Democracy

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The authoritarian personality is characterized by unquestionining obedience and respect to authority. System justification theory (SJT) argues that people are motivated to defend, bolster, and justify aspects of existing social, economic, and political ...
Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Zsolt Péter Szabó, László Kelemen   +2 more
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United States: Racial Resentment, Negative Partisanship, and Polarization in Trump’s America

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2019
Growing racial, ideological, and cultural polarization within the American electorate contributed to the shocking victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
A. Abramowitz, Jennifer McCoy
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Susceptibility to misinformation is consistent across question framings and response modes and better explained by myside bias and partisanship than analytical thinking

Judgment and Decision Making, 2022
Misinformation presents a significant societal problem. To measure individuals’ susceptibility to misinformation and study its predictors, researchers have used a broad variety of ad-hoc item sets, scales, question framings, and response modes.
Jon Roozenbeek, Rakoen Maertens, Stefan M. Herzog, Michael Geers, Ralf Kurvers, Mubashir Sultan, Sander van der Linden   +6 more
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Social assets or social liability? How partisanship moderates the relationship between social capital and Covid-19 vaccination rates across United States counties

Social Science & Medicine, 2022
This study investigates the interactive effect of social capital and partisanship on COVID-19 vaccination rates. Using county-level data from the United States (U.S.), we empirically find that social capital is a double-edged sword.
Zhao Zhang, Gao Liu, Bin Chen, Kun Huang
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“I feel it in my gut:” Epistemic Motivations, Political Beliefs, and Misperceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022
This project examines the intersection of political constructs and epistemic motivations as they relate to belief in misinformation. How we value the origins of knowledge – through feelings and intuition or evidence and data – has important implications ...
Dannagal G. Young, Erin K. Maloney, Amy Bleakley, Jessica B. Langbaum   +3 more
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