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Polarization and US foreign policy: key debates and new findings
Polarization in the USA has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few observers expect politics today to stop “at the water’s edge,”...
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Partisanship, Electoral Autocracy, and Citizen Perceptions of Party System Polarization
This paper examines how partisanship and electoral autocracy (vis-à-vis democracy) influence people’s perceptions of party system polarization in...
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Political Polarization and Tending the Flames of Hostility
An important role of social criticism is to call out social and political policies and actions that disrespect the dignity of persons, wrongfully...
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Social Trust in Polarized Times: How Perceptions of Political Polarization Affect Americans’ Trust in Each Other
Most Americans think that the country is politically divided and polarization will only get worse, not better. Such perceptions of polarization are...
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From institutional tip** points to affective and direct tips: mythical institutions, policy ineffectiveness, and nonlinear political dynamics in East Germany, 1989–1990
Studies concerning nonlinear political dynamics, such as regime change, focus on macro-level structural factors and political agency. Tip** points...
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Polarization, casualty sensitivity, and military operations: evidence from a survey experiment
Does political polarization impact decisions to go to war? This paper explores how differences in casualty sensitivity by political party in the USA...
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Finding the Fan and Anti-fan: Fan Studies as an Interpretative Frame for Political Polarization
This chapter will outline the utility of fan studies for examining online political discussion, in particular how fan-like behaviours may help...
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Polarized we trade? Intraparty polarization and US trade policy
Research indicates that polarization has led to an increasing dispersion between moderate and more extreme voters within both parties. Intraparty...
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Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in sha** political trust under high polarization
Individuals with more favorable evaluations of government performance exhibit higher trust in the political system. People also tend to put more...
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Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization
The claim that partisanship has developed into a social identity is one of the dominant explanations for the current rising levels of affective...
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Congressional polarization and limitation riders in foreign aid appropriations
Critics often accuse Congress of abdicating its constitutional authority in foreign policy. One source of evidence of congressional abdication is the...
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Disinterested or enraged? Understanding people’s political interest
Essentially unchanged measures of political interest have been included in every single survey on politics since the 60s, but recent research...
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Taking One for the (Other) Team: Does Political Diversity Lower Vaccination Uptake?
What implications might rising animosity towards political out-partisans have for public health? Vaccination has a significant social aspect,...
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Finding the water’s edge: when negative partisanship influences foreign policy attitudes
In moments of international crisis, US presidents have historically rallied public support by evoking the national identity. Affective polarization...
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Scandal and Lionization: When Corporations Speak on Socio-Political Issues in a Polarized World
Stakeholders expect corporations to address socio-political issues. The socio-political issues create affective polarization, when partisans dislike...
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Looking Ahead: Prospects for Effective Foreign Policy and Avenues for Further Research
In this concluding chapter to the edited volume, we recap key findings from the volume, discuss their implications for the effectiveness of U.S....
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Partisanship, Religion, and Issue Polarization in the United States: A Reassessment
Researchers debate the extent of issue polarization in the United States, as well as what role (if any) social identities such as partisanship and...
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Emotional Mobilization: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support
Right-wing populist parties have been a fixture of Western European party systems for several decades. Once considered ‘flash parties’ they have...
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YouTube and Traditional Media: Polarization in the Catalan Political Conflict
The information channels available to citizens have not stopped growing in the last twenty years. Since the emergence of blogs, new digital media and...
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Party Foul: The Effectiveness of Political Value Rhetoric is Constrained by Party Ownership
Politicians use political value rhetoric to win elections or persuade constituents towards policy positions, but the effectiveness of this rhetoric...
