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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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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Political Polarization and the Size of Government [PDF]
American Political Science Review, 2008 In this article, we study the relationship between political polarization and public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between polarization and the size of ...
Lindqvist, Erik, Östling, Robert
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Frontiers: Polarized America: From Political Polarization to Preference Polarization
Marketing Science, 2023 This paper investigates whether the polarization of political ideology extends to consumers’ preferences, intentions, and purchases.
Verena Schoenmueller +2 more
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Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World. [PDF]
J Chin Polit Sci, 2022 Both income inequality and political polarization have increased dramatically in much of the world over the past few decades. One might wonder how these two phenomena correlate with each other. Are there any striking similarities in the correlated patterns of income inequality and polarization across the globe?
Gu Y, Wang Z.
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Perceptions of polarization among political representatives
Political Research Exchange, 2022 The aim of this article is to study why politicians in the same elected assembly perceive political polarization differently, as well as whether and how this influences perceptions of their behaviour.
Louise Skoog, David Karlsson
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The evolving study of political polarization [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Open Research EuropeThe study of political polarization has undergone significant conceptual and methodological evolution, progressing from early emphases on ideological divides toward a more complex understanding that incorporates affective, identity-based, digital, and ...
Gonzalo Velasco Arias +11 more
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The dynamics of political polarization. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Levin SA, Milner HV, Perrings C.
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Political Polarization and Wellbeing: Investigating Potential Intrapersonal Harm From Affective Polarization [PDF]
International Review of Social PsychologyAffective polarization—antipathy towards members of one’s political out-group—may pose challenges to social cohesion and personal wellbeing. Prior studies have suggested that one’s affective polarization may cause intrapersonal harm as well as ...
Brandon McMurtrie +4 more
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