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Apr 26, 2023 · It also presents evidence about policy differences among the parties and makes an explicit link between elite and mass data with multilevel modelling. The article shows that affective polarization is real and also demonstrates its connection to the ideological landscape.
Oct 28, 2015 · Ideological divergence between candidates significantly increases affective polarization, and these effects are stronger among individuals with more extreme ideological commitments and who report greater political interest.
- Jon C. Rogowski, Joseph L. Sutherland
- 2016
18 hours ago · Recent years have seen a global surge in affective polarization, extending from the US to European and Asian democracies. ... of the relationship between each found predictor and the two outcomes ...
- Abstract
- Elements of Ideology
- The Power of Identity
- Identity-Based Ideology and Affective Ideological Polarization
- Polarizing Effects of Issue-Based Ideology
- Data and Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- Supplementary Data
The “loathing” felt between Democrats and Republicans in modern American politics is widely understood and increasingly discussed within political science (Iyengar, Sood, and Lelkes 2012; Iyengar and Westwood 2015; Mason 2015). Less discussed is the conflict between those who identify as liberals and conservatives. The 2016 election cycle brought i...
The measurement of “ideology” is a matter of debate. Any attempt to take hold of a solid and static measure has been met with numerous rebuttals and revisions. However, as Lee (2009, p. 50) states, “the difficulty in devising operational definitions of ideology has not prevented the concept from becoming central to political science.” This difficul...
A social identity, according to Brewer (2001), fills two basic psychological needs—one of inclusion (being part of the group) and one of exclusion (distinguishing oneself from others). The groups called “liberal” and “conservative” have been observed to function as social identities (Malka and Lelkes 2010; Devine 2014). Conover and Feldman (1981) f...
Anecdotally, battles between “liberals” and “conservatives” are prominent features in contemporary American politics. A quick search on Twitter will return a wealth of insulting language directed at members of both groups. This undercurrent of conflict between liberals and conservatives is palpable in social and mass media, but has yet to be quanti...
Real policy attitudes are also likely to affect how individuals feel about their political opponents. However, issue-based ideology should motivate political preference that is more in line with democratic values. After all, a normative goal of representative democracy is that citizens engage in politics in order to make their true preferences know...
In data collected in August 2016 using a national sample from Survey Sampling International (SSI),3 I use social-identity-based measures (Huddy, Mason, and Aarøe 2015) to assess identity-based ideology. The items include: (1) How important is being a [identity] to you? (2) How well does the term [identity] describe you? (3) When talking about [iden...
It is important to begin by establishing that the key concepts examined here (identity-based ideology and issue-based ideology), though related, are empirically distinguishable from each other. Pairwise correlations between identity-based and issue-based ideology are 0.34 in the SSI data and 0.33 in the ANES data. These are moderate to weak correla...
In the context of the 2016 election, many pundits have expressed confusion over the appeal of a candidate whose policy plans seemed, at best, ideologically conflicted. How could self-identified “conservatives” find appeal in a candidate who did not hold consistently right-leaning policy positions? The data presented here show that, in fact, this sh...
Supplementary data are freely available at Public Opinion Quarterlyonline. Lilliana Masonis an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. The author would like to thank the organizers and attendees of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Conference on Political P...
- Lilliana Mason
- 2018
Nov 23, 2020 · The rise of affective polarization—most notably, the tendency for partisans to dislike and distrust those from the other party 1 —is one of the most striking developments of...
- James N. Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky, John Barry Ryan
- 2021
Apr 18, 2017 · We present evidence from American National Election Studies surveys that opinions on social welfare issues have become increasingly consistent and divided along party lines and that social welfare ideology is now strongly related to feelings about the opposing party and its leaders.
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Sep 18, 2023 · We describe ideological variability related to polarization and review processes related to ideological differences that explain and influence polarization. Table 1 presents the key individual-level processes that drive polarization, their definitions, and suggested lines of future research.
