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Aug 19, 2024 · While there is no one explanation for why countries worldwide are fraying into extremes, recent findings suggest a common denominator: namely, that the key driver of polarization is more about emotion and identity than policy positions — a phenomenon known as “affective polarization.”
Apr 16, 2024 · Political polarization is the ideological distance between opposed parties. If the differences are large, it can produce logjams, standoffs, and inflexibility in Congress and state and local governments. Though it can be frustrating, political polarization is not necessarily dysfunctional.
Sep 9, 2024 · Polarization fails as an explanation of the American political landscape because the two major parties disagree over the basic facts of democracy itself. These psychological forces are strong, suggesting why ‘polarization’ remains strong even when it is not matched by deep disagreement on issues.
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May 29, 2023 · The result has been an approximate doubling of the polarization of feelings between one’s own party and its principal opponent from a 20 degree difference to a 44 degree gap. The right panel of Figure 1 shows the distribution of people’s feelings towards the opposing party.
- Defining 'Polarization'
- Looking at Data
- Partisans Don't Like Each Other
- So What?
One way to understand polarization is a shift in the distribution of public opinion such that there are fewer people in the middle and more people at the ends of the ideological spectrum. Think back to the "bell curve" you learned in your statistics class. A normal distribution of opinion would look like a bell with a single peak in the middle. An ...
Let's look at some data from the Canadian Election Studies(CES). These are surveys conducted by a team of political scientists during and after each federal election campaign. As public opinion polls go, these are the gold standard, and they are used widely in academic research. (Note, because politics works a bit differently in Quebec, I only look...
The CES also collects data on individuals' partisan identities and evaluations of other parties. Someone has a partisan identity when they have an enduring psychological attachment to a party — so much so that their bond to their party is a part of how they see themselves. In turn, this identity colours how they perceivereality, and can even shape ...
OK, so there isn't an exodus to the extremes of the political spectrum and people just like each other less. So what? For parties and partisans, this should be a wake up call to dial back the rhetoric and resist the temptation to call the people on the other side a bunch of ideologues who are un-Canadian and hate Canada. These are cheap ploys desig...
Dec 27, 2021 · Books. How Politics Got So Polarized. In a new era of hyperpartisan identities, can anything bring “us” and “them” together? By Elizabeth Kolbert. December 27, 2021. These days, party, race,...
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Dec 9, 2021 · Like a natural system, democracy faces collapse as polarization leads to loss of diversity. Studies published this week in a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explore why and how.
