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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, Oliver Treib, Franziska Eckardt   +2 more
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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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Interpretative Polarization across Platforms: How Political Disagreement Develops Over Time on Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp

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, Christian Baden, Moran Yarchi   +2 more
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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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Polarization of coalitions in an agent-based model of political discourse [PDF]

, 2014
Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete ...
A Downs, A Lijphart, AL Barabási, D Baldassarri, D Krackhardt, D Miller, DJ Watts, DR Fisher, DR Fisher, FR Baumgartner, G Wolfsfeld, I Lustick, J Lerner, JM Epstein, KM Ingold, KM Ingold, L Festinger, LC Freeman, LE Cederman, MA Hajer, MD Ward, MEJ Newman, MJ Hinich, N Fairclough, P Leifeld, P Leifeld, P Pierson, PA Hall, PA Sabatier, PE Johnson, R Bhavnani, RB Cialdini, RP Abelson, S Wasserman, SA Marvel, VA Traag   +35 more
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Relationship Between Knowledge and Compliance With Safety Measures: Evidence From COVID‐19

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Compliance with health safety protocols is important for protecting public health, particularly in agricultural sectors where disease outbreaks can disrupt production and market access. Despite its economic significance, we know little about what drives protocol compliance.
Nilufer Cetik, Carola Grebitus, Lauren Chenarides   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Relational Polarization Entail Ideological Polarization? The Case of the 2017 Norwegian Election Campaign on Twitter

International Journal of Communication, 2023
This article investigates different polarizing mechanisms—relational homophily and ideological partisanship—characterizing political communications using Twitter data collected during the 2017 Norwegian election.
Bernard Enjolras
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The Effects of Political Conflict News Frame on Political Polarization: A Social Identity Approach

International Journal of Communication, 2020
News media and journalists tend to focus on political conflicts between major parties rather than on issue content. Does this news reporting behavior encourage the psychological process of polarization?
Youngju Kim, Shuhua Zhou
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source