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Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars [PDF]
The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration.
Reynal-Querol, Marta, Montalvo, Jose G.
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Affective polarization and democratic backsliding
Evidence is strong that affective polarization and democratic backsliding are interlinked phenomena. But research still examines the causal directions between the two, mediating causal mechanisms, and the relation between individual-level polarization ...
Somer, Murat, McCoy, J.
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Affective polarisation, a growing hostility toward political outgroups, is a phenomenon rooted in social identity. Social identity threat—the expectation of experiencing some form of denigration based on a self‐relevant group identity—is thought to be a major driver of affective polarisation.
Brandon McMurtrie +4 more
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public opinion plays a central role in shaping conflict dynamics and influencing wartime policy. In this work, we examined which psychological intergroup interventions could increase public opposition to war. Building on research showing that instrumental reasoning and social identification are central, though not exhaustive, predictors of war‐
Ilana Ushomirsky +3 more
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Have Americans’ Attitudes Become More Polarized? – an Update [PDF]
Objective: I update the analysis of attitudinal polarization originally presented in DiMaggio, Evans and Bryson (DEB) (1996) by using newly available years of survey data.
John H. Evans
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using three‐wave panel data from the United Kingdom (N = 604) and the United States (N = 512), we examined changes in system‐legitimization across the 2024 electoral cycle and whether trajectories differed for electoral winners and losers. In both countries, system‐legitimization increased after the election, suggesting that elections function
Evan A. Valdes +3 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2019 This study is concerned with the role of persistent online incivility in the dynamics of public opinion polarization. It examines how cyberbalkanization, contentiousness of the political context, online incivility, and opinion polarization at the ...
Francis L.F. Lee +2 more
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Political Polarization and Economic Growth
SSRN Electronic JournalAbstract This study examines the effect of political polarization, measured by the dispersion of self-reported political ideologies, on economic growth. Using a panel of 75 countries from 1990 to 2019, we find that political polarization has a negative effect on economic growth through its effect on private investment, human capital investment,
Youngho Kang +2 more
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous research has focused on disadvantaged groups seeking social change, overlooking how dominant groups mobilize to preserve the status quo. Across three studies (two correlational, one experimental), we explored how collective grievance—the feeling of being or having been collectively wronged by an outgroup—drives system‐preserving ...
Beatriz Alba, Alexandra Vázquez
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On polarization and mobility: A look at polarization in the wage-career profile in Italy [PDF]
This paper attempts to combine the analysis of wage (income) polarization with that of wage (income) mobility. Using the polarization index PG recently proposed by Deutsch et al.
Jacques Silber, Ambra Poggi
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