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Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 Significance Democracies require compromise. But compromise becomes almost impossible when voters are divided into diametrically opposed camps. The danger is that intolerance will grow, democratic norms will be undermined, and winners will be reluctant to let the losers ever regain power. To better understand how polarization can be prevented,
Robert Axelrod +2 more
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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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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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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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From Polarization to Hate: Portrait of the Spanish Political Meme
, 2021 Political polarization in Spain has been aggravated by a left-wing coalition government and the rise of the extreme right in the context of health and economic crisis created by COVID-19.
Paz Rebollo, María Antonia +2 more
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Political polarization and corporate political advocacy [PDF]
Journal of International Money and FinanceThis paper examines the motivations and financial consequences of corporate political advocacy by examining the pause and subsequent resumption of corporate political donations following the US Capitol riots. Firms operating in a politically polarized environment were more likely to make these announcements, regardless of firm-level political risks ...
Swarnodeep Homroy +1 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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Polarization and Political Selection
, 2019 Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 10 ...
Yu, Tinghua, Ash, Elliott
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