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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Affective polarization"”.
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Group Heterogeneity and Affective Polarization Within The Democratic Party
… Drawing on traditional studies of cross-party polarization, this study takes on a novel multi-faceted approach to measuring the extent of within-party polarization within the Democratic Party. This includes measures that aim to capture feelings, attitudes, and behaviors towards different …
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People are more than their politics: Expanding our sense of self as a way to alleviate affective polarization
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Feeling Polarized? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Central Albertans Feelings in Response to Polarizing Content on Facebook
Affective polarization has become a growing problem in Canada (Boulianne & Belland, 2022; LaFleche, 2023; Marchand et al., 2020; Milloy, 2023). Despite this, most studies examining digital polarization explore the content, or technologies driving polarization, rather than the lived experience of …
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A League of Their Own: an Exploration of Fandom, Identity, and Political Behavior
… participation, social media engagement, and affective polarization. Scholarship has long analyzed partisan and ideological beliefs through Social Identity Theory, but the growing emotional attachment to individual politicians highlights the need to consider political fandom as an important …
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How Do Discussion Heterogeneity and Incivility Affect Opinion Expression and Polarization
… their effects on opinion expression, political polarization and response incivility. It fills a research gap by comparing 2 types of heterogeneity and homogeneity. It integrates group polarization theory in social psychology with empirical studies in communication by drawing analogy between …
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Emerging political conflicts and the role of personality
… immigrants. My third paper turns to a new issue: affective polarization. I argue that personality may influence out-party hostility in a number of ways. Due to the wide variety of media choices available, personality may influence media selection, indirectly impacting levels of hostility. One’s …
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He is not one of U.S.: partisanship, perceptions of anti-Americanism & their consequences for democracy
… are not new, but in an era of intensifying affective polarization, social sorting, and rising threats and harassment targeting public officials, these debates can shape the lens through which citizens view their fellow Americans, evaluate political elites, and form their political attitudes. …
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The Affective Politics of Democratic Erosion: Explaining Mass Support for Executive Aggrandizement
… theoretical framework, I offer the concept "affective political ties" as an umbrella term, including partisan identities, partisan emotions, and affective polarization. Building on this framework developed in the Introduction, I explore the conditions under which the strength of affective …
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Polarized Without the Other Side: Measurements from Congress on Bluesky
<p>Political polarization seems to be rising at an alarming rate in the United States. Those on opposite sides of the political spectrum are increasingly viewing each other more negatively, with this effect amplified in the rhetoric of elected officials. In this research, I examine social media …
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Lovesick: the effects of political partisanship and COVID-19 vaccine perceptions on online romantic partner selection
… this being a symptom of a much larger degree of affective polarization in the United States which continues to grow.
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Essays on Political Economy
… events in recent decades, including the rise in affective polarization, protests, and high levels of corruption in developing countries. These events can severely affect the success of democratic institutions, which are vital for economic development. In Chapter 1, I study the role of social …
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THE 2019 EP ELECTION CAMPAIGN AS SEEN FROM TWITTER
… and the public might fuel reinforcing spirals of polarization dynamics along partisan lines, highlighting patterns of affective polarization in the context of the EP 2019 election campaign. Research on affective polarization has typically relied on survey questionnaires or experimental settings to …
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All the president’s people? The origins of affective attachment towards political leaders
… examines the origins and development of affective attachment to political leaders—termed Presidential Identification (Pres-ID)—by investigating how political contexts and exposure shape emotional connections between voters and political leaders. Drawing on scholarship about partisanship, …
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Political identity switching and change in religiosity among students at a conservative Christian university.
… which – in a context of increased political polarization and expressive political identity – may impact religious commitment. Using longitudinal panel data from the Baylor Faith and Character Study, this study examines change in political identity and religiosity among students at a …
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The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime
… which in turn increases participation and polarization. Focalism causes people to confuse the allocation of attention to things with the importance of those things. Because attention to politics typically centers on conflict, the result is an exaggeration of differences across the partisan …
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Action
… in the climate movement. However, widespread affective polarization—dislike of those across the political aisle—still plays an important role here in that Democrats expect cross-party outreach to fail because Republicans will be polarized against them. In the second chapter of my thesis, …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… roles in elections, but at the same time affective polarization is intense, and negative partisanship is critical to vote choice. Negative affection to the opposition party leads voters to be more loyal to their own party. A natural question then arises, that is, do candidates matter to …
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The Soldier and the Citizen: Examining the U.S. Military’s Non-partisan Norms
… This research, along with increasing political polarization in America, raises questions about whether the military can remain a non-partisan institution. This dissertation aims to answer some of these questions by improving our understanding of military non-partisan norms. It explores the …
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Understanding and Measuring Affective Polarisation in Mass Publics
… it discusses the concept and phenomenon of affective polarisation, which commonly refers to the dislike between individuals of different political camps. This thesis is guided by a methodological approach focused on the subjectively experiencing individual as analytical starting point for …