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Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis
Media and Communication, 2022 Homophily, the tendency of people to have ties with those who are similar, is a fundamental pattern to understand human relations. As such, the study of homophily can provide key insights into the flow of information and behaviors within political ...
Marc Esteve-Del-Valle
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Media Asia, 2023 The current article explains why netizens are escaping the political polarization observed in their activities on social media during the 2014 and 2019 Indonesian presidential elections.
Iswandi Syahputra +3 more
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, 2018 The following report is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the literature on the relationship between social media; political polarization; and political “disinformation,” a term used to encompass a wide range of types of information
Joshua A. Tucker +7 more
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Impact of Social/Traditional Media on Political Polarization
Journal of student-scientists' research, 2023 There is a common perception that political polarization is increasing in American society and the blame is often assigned to highly partisan traditional media (e.g., TV news channels) and the emergence of social media echo chambers as the major ...
Shubhi Goyal, M. Goyal
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Valence, Complementarities, and Political Polarization [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 I study a model of electoral competition where two parties that care about both the spoils of office and policy compete by announcing policy platforms. Parties are characterized by their valence on the one hand and by their policy platforms on the other.
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Political Polarization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 Affective polarization has increased substantially in the United States and countries of Europe over the last decades and the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to drastically reinforce such polarization.
Sebastian Jungkunz +2 more
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Competing activists—Political polarization [PDF]
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2020 Recent empirical findings suggest that societies have become more polarized in various countries. That is, the median voter of today represents a smaller fraction of society compared to two decades ago and yet, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are not fully understood. Since interactions between influential actors ("activists") and voters play
Böttcher, Lucas +3 more
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The great divide: drivers of polarization in the US public
EPJ Data Science, 2020 Many democratic societies have become more politically polarized, with the U.S. being the main example. The origins of this phenomenon are still not well-understood and subject to debate.
Lucas Böttcher, Hans Gersbach
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The virus of polarization: online debates about Covid-19 in Germany
Political Research Exchange, 2023 To what extent do online debates display features of political polarization and in how far does polarization pose a problem for democracy? We zoom in on affective polarization: the formation of societal groups with hostile feelings towards each other ...
Fabiana Schmid +2 more
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The Political Polarization of Corporate America
Social Science Research Network, 2022 U.S. executives are increasingly segregating by political party. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2022.
Vyacheslav Fos +2 more
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