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The dynamics of political polarization. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 A number of trends in national and international politics greatly affect our capacity to achieve the cooperation that will be necessary to address the challenges facing society over the coming decades.
Levin SA, Milner HV, Perrings C.
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Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization: Insights and Implications for Climate Change [PDF]
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 Political polarization is a barrier to enacting policy solutions to global issues. Social psychology has a rich history of studying polarization, and there is an important opportunity to define and refine its contributions to the present political ...
Jennifer Cole +2 more
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Statistical Mechanics of Political Polarization [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Rapidly increasing political polarization threatens democracies around the world. Scholars from several disciplines are assessing and modeling polarization antecedents, processes, and consequences. Social systems are complex and networked. Their constant
Miron Kaufman +2 more
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The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Political polarization threatens democracy in America. This article helps illuminate what drives it, as well as what factors account for its asymmetric nature. In particular, we focus on positive feedback among members of Congress as the key
Alessio Franci +2 more
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Cognitive-motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts. [PDF]
Nat Rev Psychol, 2022 Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become so polarized that an ‘us versus them’ mentality dominates.
Jost JT, Baldassarri DS, Druckman JN.
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The role of (social) media in political polarization: a systematic review
Annals of the International Communication Association, 2021 Rising political polarization is, in part, attributed to the fragmentation of news media and the spread of misinformation on social media. Previous reviews have yet to assess the full breadth of research on media and polarization.
Christian Von Sikorski, Emily Kubín
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Seven years of studying the associations between political polarization and problematic information: a literature review. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 This literature review examines the intersection between political polarization and problematic information, two phenomena prominent in recent events like the 2016 Trump election and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Marino G, Iannelli L.
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An Agent-Based Statistical Physics Model for Political Polarization: A Monte Carlo Study [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 World-wide, political polarization continues unabated, undermining collective decision-making ability. In this issue, we have examined polarization dynamics using a (mean-field) model borrowed from statistical physics, assuming that each individual ...
Hung T. Diep +2 more
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Political polarization: a curse of knowledge? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 PurposeCould the curse of knowledge influence how antagonized we are towards political outgroups? Do we assume others know what we know but still disagree with us?
Peter Beattie, Marguerite Beattie
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Rethinking Political Polarization
Political Science Quarterly, 2023 The comparative study of political polarization has been central to current debates on the global crisis of democracy. It has been built on uncertain conceptual foundations, though.
Andreas Schedler
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