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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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Beyond the political principle: Applying Martin Buber’s philosophy to societal polarization [PDF]
, 2022 Societal polarization has given rise to opposing groups that fight each other as enemies and that have very different ideas about what should be done and about what is the case.
Pauly, Marc, Pauly, Marc; id_orcid
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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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Measuring whether political elites or members of the public lead ideological shifts and polarization in the United States [PDF]
, 2022 This thesis considers the relationship between public and elite opinion and explores the causes of polarization in American politics. In the first part of the thesis, I review theories that explain potential sources for polarization, and I discuss the ...
Dixon, Daneil
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(Extreme) political polarization and party patronage
, 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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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 +2 more
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A network model for polarization of political opinion [PDF]
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2020 We propose and study a simple model for the evolution of political opinion through a population. The model includes a nonlinear term that causes individuals with more extreme views to be less receptive to external influence. Such a term was suggested in 1981 by Cobb in the context of a scalar-valued diffusion equation, and recent empirical studies ...
Desmond J. Higham +1 more
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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
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Political content and news are polarized but other content is not in YouTube watch histories
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2023 Research on ideological biases and polarization on social media platforms primarily focuses on news and political content. Non-political content, which is vastly more popular, is often overlooked.
Magdalena Wojcieszak +2 more
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