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Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support LISA JANSSEN, EMMA TURKENBURG

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Is #AffectivePolarization harming democratic support? 💭

@lisajanssen.bsky.social & @turkenburgemma.bsky.social instead suggest an inverted U-shape pattern of #ModeratrePolarization & #ExtremePolarization using data from 🇩🇪🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸

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Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.

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Gefeliciteerd Silke!! Ik hoop dat alles goed met jullie gaat :) er bestaat geen betere reden om EPSA voor te missen 😉

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We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍

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What a pleasure to direct this amazing @ecpr.bsky.social Joint sessions workshop on citizens democratic commitment with Hannah Werner - thanks to all participants for the exciting papers and stimulating discussions!

What an amazing @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions edition! Many thanks to the directors @lisajanssen.bsky.social and Hanna Werner, for a wonderfully organised workshop, and to all participants for great papers followed by even greater discussions! 🍒 on top of the 🍰: all of this in beautiful Prague 🇨🇿

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis.

Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6

Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

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Pushing and Pulling: The Static and Dynamic Effects of Political Distrust on Support for Representative Democracy and its Rivals - Political Behavior Distrust is widely argued to stimulate support for political and institutional change. Yet, there is little agreement among scholars whether distrust pulls people towards rivaling decision-making mode...

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh:
Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy
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Congrats on this amazing paper! Happy to see it out at EJPR :)

Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization Measuring affective polarization, defined as the liking for one's political ingroup and the dislike for political outgroups, poses methodological challenges in multiparty systems: evaluations of seve...

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First paper of my dissertation now out in EJPR with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social

Can we measure affective polarization in systems with 6, 10, or even more parties without overburdening respondents or compromising validity? We show how.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research!

@markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters.

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This Friday, Joep van Lit (Radboud University) will present key insights on democratic decay and the difficulties of democratic defence in our times.

Everyone's welcome - no registration required!

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‼️ New paper out in EJPR!

With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

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Excited and grateful that FWO (Flemish Research Fund) has awarded us (me, @robindevroe.bsky.social and C. Devos) a 4year-research project grant to study ideological stereotypes on the basis of gender, age and ethnic origin of politicians 🥳

Amazing people, great discussions, and even better scenery! Really grateful to have joined this wonderful workshop at Villa Vigoni 🏞️

Here is the second starter pack on researchers working on Political Behavior.

The first pack filled up quickly.

If you requested to be included and don’t see your name here, please reach out again—I might have missed your message

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I would love to be added!

De uitzending van 20 november Met Natascha van Weezel, Özcan Akyol, Sarah de Lange, Laila Frank, Huib Modderkolk, Kustaw Bessems & Henri Bontenbal

Gisteren besteedde Eva Jinek een hele uitzending aan polarisatie in politiek en samenleving. Dankbaar dat ik een wetenschappelijke bijdrage mocht leveren. Oa over affectieve polarisatie en de rol van politieke elites. Aflevering hier terug te kijken eva.avrotros.nl/artikel/de-u...

Sorry for the people who previously saw this thread on Twitter and are now bothered with it once more 🙆

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And most importantly, we hope everyone likes the High School Musical reference in our title:

Lastly, out research note has a crucial methodological contribution: We recommend future studies that aim to explore the relationship between AP and democratic support to account for possible non-linearity in their estimation strategies

Our findings have important normative implications and question the belief that AP is always bad for democracy. Rather, it might be citizens positioned at the extremes - those extremely low or high in AP - that warrant attention.

We use data from CNEP to empirically test the shape of the relationship between affective polarization and support for democracy.

The results suggest some sort of 'sweet spot':

We argue that though extreme AP may have an eroding effect on democratic attitudes by driving voters to view opponents as an existential threat, a moderate degree of AP can spur broader democratic involvement by making politics relevant to citizens

Better late than never:

📢Can moderate levels of affective polarization actually be beneficial for citizens’ democratic attitudes?

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In EJPR, @turkenburgemma.bsky.social and I show that the relationship between AP and democratic support is more nuanced than previously assumed