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Disinformation and political polarization: A pernicious association [PDF]
, 2023 Political polarization can have pernicious consequences for democracy. Disinformation has been theorized to contribute to turning political polarization pernicious but the connection has not been thoroughly examined.
Brodén, Hanna
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Polarization, Antipathy, and Political Activism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 AbstractWe present an evolutionary game theory model in which polarization, antipathy, and political activism are simultaneous consequences of the evolution of individuals' ideologies and their attitudes toward other ideologies. We show that the evolutionary process is likely to result in a vicious path with individuals becoming increasingly extreme ...
Jiabin Wu, Hanzhe Zhang
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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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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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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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Polarization and Political Selection
, 2019 Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 10 ...
Yu, Tinghua, Ash, Elliott
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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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(Extreme) political polarization and party patronage [PDF]
, 2022 The contemporary literature on political parties has identified their gradual but consistent shift away from civil society and towards the state. As parties are becoming ever increasingly dependent on state resources and exclusively interested in ...
Spirova, M. +5 more
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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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