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Racism, nationalism and right-wing extremism online: The Austrian Presidential Election 2016 on Facebook [PDF]
Thee 2016 Austrian presidential election saw a run-o between the Green party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen and the Freedom Party of Austria’s (FPÖ) far-right candidate Norbert Hofer.
Fuchs, Christian, Fuchs, Christian
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Abstract The return to “old glories” is one of the main promises of radical‐right parties, picking up on widespread longings for the collective past. Many people argue that radical‐right support is motivated by Relative Deprivation, that is, the perception of being worse off than others.
Carla Grosche, Tobias Rothmund
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The recent elections may have only postponed Greece’s default and Eurozone exit [PDF]
Last Sunday’s elections in Greece saw the pro-bailout New Democracy party gain the largest share of the vote, reassuring many commentators who had been fearing a default by Greece or even its ejection from the Eurozone.
Halikiopoulou, Daphne +1 more
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Abstract In an adversarial collaboration, two preregistered U.S.‐based studies (total N = 6181) tested three hypotheses regarding the relationship between political ideology and belief rigidity (operationalized as less evidence‐based belief updating): rigidity‐of‐the‐right, symmetry, and rigidity‐of‐extremes.
Shauna M. Bowes +6 more
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Multilingual Cross-domain Perspectives on Online Hate Speech
In this report, we present a study of eight corpora of online hate speech, by demonstrating the NLP techniques that we used to collect and analyze the jihadist, extremist, racist, and sexist content.
Daelemans, Walter +6 more
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Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric
Abstract American politics is rife with messages designed to anger one's political enemies. In this paper, we propose and test a model suggesting that such inflammatory messages are effective because they signal that the messenger is unwilling to compromise with the groups they have offended.
Sosuke Okada, Nicholas Buttrick
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Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: Explaining local trajectories of anti-minority activism [PDF]
Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not?
Busher, Joel +2 more
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Abstract The midpoint of the left‐right self‐placement item is hiding important political diversity, and may be conflating moderate responders with populists and other political sub‐groups. Survey researchers should consider this problem when examining relationships between political orientation and political attitudes.
Edward J. R. Clarke +6 more
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Can you identify violent extremists using a screening checklist and open-source intelligence alone? [PDF]
Checklist-based screening instruments have a role in the assessment of mentally disordered and criminal offenders, but their value for screening for vulnerability to violent extremism remains moot.
Alison, Emily +6 more
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