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the middle class consensus and economic development [PDF]

open access: yes
Modern political economy stresses"society's polarization"as a determinant of development outcomes. Among the most common dorms of social conflict are class polarization, and ethnic polarization.
Easterly, William
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The New Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In 2018, Nike, Inc. and Colin Kaepernick released the ad “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Within hours, the ad went viral, angering some while drawing praise from many others.
Grebisz, Isaac
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Measuring Political Polarization: Twitter shows the two sides of Venezuela

open access: yes, 2015
We say that a population is perfectly polarized when divided in two groups of the same size and opposite opinions. In this paper, we propose a methodology to study and measure the emergence of polarization from social interactions.
Benito, R. M.   +3 more
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Patterns of partisan toxicity and engagement reveal the common structure of online political communication across countries

open access: yesNature Communications
Existing studies of political polarization are often limited to a single country and one form of polarization, hindering a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon.
Max Falkenberg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution and structuration of opinion communities in social conflicts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Traditionally, political polarization has been an important topic of analysis on the social and political sciences, but in recent years, due to the paradigm shift of political participation and the digital record that it generates associated to the ...
Andrino Turón, Borja
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Information, Polarization and Delegation in Democracy. [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the merits of different democratic institutions when politics is uni-dimensional, there is uncertainty both about the preferences of the future electorate and the future polarization of political parties, and politicians have ...
Christian Schultz
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Political Polarization Over Factual Beliefs

open access: yes, 2022
Recent decades have seen increasing levels of political polarization in both the United States and Western Europe. Whereas the literature has commonly distinguished between ideological polarization (i.e., citizens’ overall divergence and partisan alignment in political views) and affective polarization (i.e., citizens’ sympathy towards partisan in ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Online Incivility, Cyberbalkanization, and the Dynamics of Opinion Polarization During and After a Mass Protest Event

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2019
This study is concerned with the role of persistent online incivility in the dynamics of public opinion polarization. It examines how cyberbalkanization, contentiousness of the political context, online incivility, and opinion polarization at the ...
Francis L.F. Lee   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Religious Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
More and more research has begun to look at the impact that religion has on armed conflict. This paper takes a closer look at religious polarization and the impact that it has on the duration of civil wars. The central hypothesis focuses on the idea that
Poissant, Adrienne M.
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Social Media, Affective Polarization, and Collective Action in Peru

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad)
Affective polarization has become a worldwide phenomenon that impacts the ability to engage in meaningful dialogue and reflective consideration of different available courses of action. Social media use has been linked to phenomena such as homophily and
Fernando Ruiz-Dodobara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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