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View article: Why masses support democratic backsliding
Why masses support democratic backsliding Open
Concerns over democratic backsliding have proliferated recently, as elected politicians have sought to undermine democratic checks and balances. This study examines the underpinnings of public support for democratic backsliding, delineatin…
View article: Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization
Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization Open
While scholars document associations between competing parties’ policy disputes and citizens’ cross-party hostility, that is, affective polarization, we lack causal comparative evidence of how different types of ideological disagreements s…
View article: How warm are political interactions? A new measure of affective fractionalization
How warm are political interactions? A new measure of affective fractionalization Open
Affective polarization measures account for partisans’ feelings towards their own party versus its opponent(s), but not for how likely partisans are to encounter co-partisans versus out-partisans. However, the intensity of out-party dislik…
View article: Imagined Journalists: New Framework for Studying Media–Audiences Relationship in Populist Times
Imagined Journalists: New Framework for Studying Media–Audiences Relationship in Populist Times Open
These are challenging times for journalists’ relationship with their audiences. Attacks against “the media” and the increasing weaponization of social media to harass journalists have drawn the attention of scholars worldwide. In the curre…
View article: Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming Open
While scholars have closely examined the intensification of negative affect across party lines during elections, less is known about the decline of partisan hostility in the aftermath of election campaigns. Synthesizing insights from resea…
View article: Who Supports Democratic Backsliding? Evidence from Israel
Who Supports Democratic Backsliding? Evidence from Israel Open
Concerns over democratic backsliding have proliferated recently, as elected politicians have sought to undermine democratic checks and balances. This study examines the underpinnings of public support for democratic backsliding, delineatin…
View article: Replication Data for: "What do we measure when we measure affective polarization across countries?"
Replication Data for: "What do we measure when we measure affective polarization across countries?" Open
Measures of affective polarization—that is, dislike and hostility across party lines—have been developed and validated in the context of America’s two-party system. Yet increasingly, affective polarization is examined comparatively. We add…
View article: Analyzing Text and Images in Digital Communication: The Case of Securitization in American White Supremacist Online Discourse
Analyzing Text and Images in Digital Communication: The Case of Securitization in American White Supremacist Online Discourse Open
Sociological research on online discourse increasingly uses digital data consisting of messages combining multiple modes of media, with meaning arising from contents’ interaction across modes. Yet, techniques to study this interplay are un…
View article: Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey
Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey Open
While scholars increasingly link affective polarization to the rise of populist parties, existing empirical studies are limited to the effects of radical right parties, without considering the possible effects of leftist populist parties o…
View article: Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies
Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies Open
While dislike of opposing parties, that is, affective polarization, is a defining feature of contemporary politics, research on this topic largely centers on the United States. We introduce an approach that analyzes affective polarization …
View article: Replication Data for: Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey
Replication Data for: Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey Open
Datasets and code used for conducting all analyses and creating all figures for this publication.
View article: Replication Data for: Validating the feeling thermometer as a measure of partisan affect in multi-party systems
Replication Data for: Validating the feeling thermometer as a measure of partisan affect in multi-party systems Open
This contains the replication data and code for Validating the feeling thermometer as a measure of partisan affect in multi-party systems
View article: How Warm are Partisan Political Interactions? A Frequency-based Measure of Affective Fractionalization
How Warm are Partisan Political Interactions? A Frequency-based Measure of Affective Fractionalization Open
Affective polarization measures account for partisans’ feelings towards their own party versus its opponent(s), irrespective of how frequently partisans encounter co-partisans versus out-partisans in everyday interactions and public discou…
View article: The Israel Polarization Panel Dataset, 2019–2021
The Israel Polarization Panel Dataset, 2019–2021 Open
The Israel Polarization Panel [IPP] Dataset, 2019–2021 is a 10 wave panel survey, following the same individuals over five Israeli elections. The dataset contains survey items which capture multiple dimensions of polarization, as well as o…
View article: Replication Data for: Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies
Replication Data for: Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies Open
This contains the replication data and code for Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies
View article: Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics
Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics Open
Concern over partisan resentment and hostility has increased across Western democracies. Despite growing attention to affective polarization, existing research fails to ask whether who serves in office affects mass-level interparty hostili…
View article: Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics
Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics Open
This dataset contains the replication files for "Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics."
View article: Replication Data for: The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility
Replication Data for: The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility Open
Replication data and code for Horne, Adams and Gidron, "The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility"
View article: Replication Data for: Many Ways to be Right: Cross-pressured Voters in Western Europe
Replication Data for: Many Ways to be Right: Cross-pressured Voters in Western Europe Open
Mainstream parties in Western Europe are increasingly struggling to hold together their base of support. As a lens for exploring this changing electoral landscape, I focus on the growing share of the electorate that is cross-pressured betw…
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View article: Center-Right Political Parties in Advanced Democracies
Center-Right Political Parties in Advanced Democracies Open
This review proposes a comparative research agenda on center-right parties in advanced democracies, bringing together research in American and comparative politics. Political scientists have recently closely examined the decline of the cen…
View article: Do changes in material circumstances drive support for populist radical parties? Panel data evidence from The Netherlands during the Great Recession, 2007–2015
Do changes in material circumstances drive support for populist radical parties? Panel data evidence from The Netherlands during the Great Recession, 2007–2015 Open
Political developments since the 2008 financial crisis have sparked renewed interest in the electoral implications of economic downturns. Research describes a correlation between adverse economic conditions and support for radical parties …
View article: Do changes in material circumstances drive support for populist radical parties? Panel data evidence from The Netherlands during the Great Recession, 2007–2015
Do changes in material circumstances drive support for populist radical parties? Panel data evidence from The Netherlands during the Great Recession, 2007–2015 Open
Political developments since the 2008 financial crisis have sparked renewed interest in the electoral implications of economic downturns. Research describes a correlation between adverse economic conditions and support for radical parties …
View article: Toward a Comparative Research Agenda on Affective Polarization in Mass Publics
Toward a Comparative Research Agenda on Affective Polarization in Mass Publics Open
While affective polarization has attracted academic and public interest, nearly all we know about this topic is based on the well-developed American literature. As Iyenger et al. (2019) note in a recent literature review, “more work is nee…
View article: When white working-class men feel society no longer values them
When white working-class men feel society no longer values them Open
The Brexit referendum exposed deep political divisions within British society, and more than a year after that vote, those divisions show no signs of disappearing.