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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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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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Polarization and Political Selection
, 2019 Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 10 ...
Yu, Tinghua, Ash, Elliott
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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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Politics and polarization on Bluesky
CoRROnline political discourse is increasingly shaped not by a few dominant platforms but by a fragmented ecosystem of social media spaces, each with its own user base, target audience, and algorithmic mediation of discussion. Such fragmentation may fundamentally change how polarization manifests online. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of
Ali Salloum +4 more
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Social Media + Society, 2020 Political polarization, seen as a key threat to contemporary democracy, has been tied to the rise of digital social media. However, how this process develops in the context of a social media environment characterized by multiple platforms—with differing ...
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik +2 more
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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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Aspects of Polarization: Discussion about the Political Mood in American Society
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2017 The article considers the expression of political polarization in American society at the present stage and reflection of these processes in the American social and political thought.
A Yu Bykov
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