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Affective Polarization and Misinformation Belief
While affective polarization has been shown to have serious social consequences, there is little evidence regarding its effects on political...
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Understanding factual belief polarization: the role of trust, political sophistication, and affective polarization
Political opponents are often divided not only in their attitudes (i.e., ideological polarization) and their feelings toward each other (i.e.,...
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Exploring the effect of personalized voting on affective polarization: Prototypical leadership and campaign effects
Recent studies have shown that political information directly associated with a real-world leader tends to generate more (affective) polarization...
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Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?
Western societies are increasingly facing a challenge of affective polarization; a trend where citizens develop a strong affective connection toward...
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Affective Polarization: Over Time, Through the Generations, and During the Lifespan
The continual rise of affective polarization in the United States harms trust in democratic institutions. Scholars cite processes of ideological and...
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‘American’ is the Eye of the Beholder: American Identity, Racial Sorting, and Affective Polarization among White Americans
White Americans are more affectively polarized today than at any point since at least the 1870s—and the trend shows no sign of abating any time soon....
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The Reputational Consequences of Polarization for American Foreign Policy: Evidence from the US-UK Bilateral Relationship
How does partisan polarization in the United States affect foreign perceptions of its security commitments and global leadership? In a survey...
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Introduction: Polarization and America’s Role in the World
Polarization in the United States has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few observers expect politics today to stop “at the...
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Polarized We Trade? Intraparty Polarization and U.S. 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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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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The (Null) Effects of Happiness on Affective Polarization, Conspiracy Endorsement, and Deep Fake Recognition: Evidence from Five Survey Experiments in Three Countries
Affective polarization is a key concern in America and other democracies. Although past evidence suggests some ways to minimize it, there are no...
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Socioeconomic anxieties and electoral polarization: insights from Belgian federal elections at the municipal level
Polarization is increasingly seen as a phenomenon with far reaching and precarious consequences that extend beyond politics. Despite the extensive...
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Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism
Recent political trends and events have been marked by strong educational differences. In addition, education has also been shown to be a basis for...
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Getting Down in the Muck: Polarization and Online Debate
This chapter will set up the main argument of the book by outlining the problems with existing theoretical approaches to polarization in online...
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The reputational consequences of polarization for American foreign policy: evidence from the US-UK bilateral relationship
How does partisan polarization in the United States affect foreign perceptions of its security commitments and global leadership? In a survey...
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Fandom and Polarization in Online Political Discussion From Pop Culture to Politics
This book takes an innovative fan studies approach to investigating one of the most pressing issues of contemporary times: polarization. Drawing on...
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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 chapter explores how differences in casualty sensitivity by political party in the...
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‘Fake news,’ Polarization and Fan-like Behaviours
This chapter seeks to draw on the theoretical framework of fandom to examine the evaluation of information used in online political debate as well as...
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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 country’s national identity. Affective...
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Introduction: Polarization, Fandom and Meeting in the Middle
The introduction charts the terrain that the book covers. It will outline some of the key concepts that I have based my study on, and to a large...