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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"political polarisation"”.
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The Impact of Data Presentation Practices on Perceptions of Political Polarisation
… the United States is a highly polarised sociopolitical environment. However, some researchers – while acknowledging the presence of some degree of polarisation – have deemed it fair to question whether citizens are as divided as they believe themselves to be. “False polarisation” is a …
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Journalism practice, media and democracy in Venezuela (2000-2010)
… arguably represents the most radical socio-political shift in the western hemisphere during the twenty-first century. Its political model has led to a political polarisation previously unknown in Venezuela and Latin America. In such a highly-polarised environment and ongoing clashes between …
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Transforming participation?: a comparative study of state and civil society agency within national development processes in Malawi and Ireland
In the context of growing economic, social and political polarisation between and within countries both North and South, this study addresses the question as to whether new forms of participatory governance, in the form of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP) process in Malawi, and …
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Psychosocial interventions in emergencies: theoretical models and their ethical and political implications in the Venezuelan context. The case of UNICEF.
… in Venezuela during 1999, and some of their political and ethical implications. I discuss how UNICEF’s intervention in the shelter of Fuerte Tiuna, in Caracas, provides a context in which discourses and practices construct the disaster as an event of a particular type, affording particular …
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Media representations of uncertainty about climate change
… the media plays in fuelling, or reflecting, the political polarisation around climate change.
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Understanding and Measuring Affective Polarisation in Mass Publics
This thesis concerns individuals’ affect within political divisions, more precisely 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 …
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Essays in Information Economics
… how partisanship of media can be driven by political polarisation of the public and by the tendency of people to interact with people with similar political views. The second essay, co-authored by Jakub Redlicki, investigates falsification of scientific evidence by interest groups. We …
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Ways of being multilingual in a monolingual state revealing the language ontologies and ideologies of young adult learners in a rural part of France through a language portrait exercise
… its institutions have implications for deepening political polarisation and stigmatisation within France's population. As a small-scale study, it is not possible to generalize these findings. However, this study has transferable and naturalistic generalisability on account of the participants' …
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The Art of Embodied Politics: Street Performances and Citizenship Practices in a polarised Brazil
… of uncertainty, misinformation and strong polarisation? The year 2022 marked the culmination of several conditions that affected directly the everyday lives of Brazilians: the gradual return to in-person activities after two years of conflicting scientific advice and official guidance …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
… low public support is viewed as a barrier to political climate action. Chapter 2 presents an experiment with 611 Belgian politicians from Flanders, testing underestimation of climate policy support, and whether this underestimation can be reduced by a norm-based intervention presenting polling …
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Assessing Economic, Social, Political and Environmental Issues Related to Mega-projects: A case study of Merowe Dam in Sudan
… over time as the country has experienced political polarisation and rapid transition towards modernisation, industrialisation and urbanisation (Verhoeven 2011). However, in 1990s the country’s economy has faltered due to electricity shortages, and stagnation in industrials and …