Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations

#AffectivePolarization ≠ only #Partisanships 🎉

Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social widen the lens on political identity, looking in Germany, where ideological identities (left/right) are as strong as party IDs and shape how people judge others 🤔

Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization JAKOB KASPER, GIJS SCHUMACHER, BERT N. BAKKER

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🧠 Can we measure #AffectivePolarization without long surveys?
A 39-country study 📊 by @jakobkas.bsky.social @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & B.Baker find that brief, smartly chosen measures still work if they span major ideological divides

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Do Fans Make Poor Referees? Exploring Citizens’ Reactions to Partisan Gamesmanship - Political Behavior Political (as opposed to professional) election oversight is one area in which the U.S. scores extremely low in measures of election integrity. Meanwhile, rancorous political battles to determine acceptable election procedures and judge when tactics cross the line have become common events. Our work contributes to recent scholarship investigating whether voters prioritize democratic principles or strategically favor electoral procedures that provide partisan advantage. In two survey experiments, we confirm that Americans’ attitudes about antidemocratic election tactics reveal more about which team they are cheering for than they do about whether the tactics are fraudulent. The tendency to engage in partisan motivated reasoning occurs among all partisans, but there are subtle differences as to when citizens will engage in it. Partisan motivated reasoning is more common when actions cause harm and by the partisans that are harmed. Finally, Independents are more impartial, but less likely to call out improper tactics in the aggregate because they often fail to condemn actions by either party.

Can seeing the “other side” differently heal division?
Myers & Hvidsten find that meeting counter-stereotypical partisans reduces bias and improves feelings toward the out-party.
#PoliticalBehavior #AffectivePolarization
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Gender and affective polarization KYUNG JOON HAN

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📊 Kyung Joon Han looks as women in Western Europe how show higher #AffectivePolarization largely due to stronger disapproval of opposing party supporters.

#OA #Polisky

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Ripping the public apart? Politicians’ dark personality and affective polarization ALESSANDRO NAI, FREDERICO FERREIRA DA SILVA, LOES AALDERING, KATJANA GATTERMANN, DIEGO GARZIA

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Do narcissistic leaders fuel political division? 🧠📊

These authors (🧵⬇️) find that when voters feel close to a leader with dark traits they become more polarized, disliking opposing parties even more. #AffectivePolarization #PoliticalPsychology

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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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Narcissism and Affective Polarization - Political Behavior There are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and id...

James Tilley & Sara Hobolt's newest publication finds that narcissistic personalities fuel affective polarization in the UK. Narcissism predicts both loyalty to in-groups and hostility to out-groups, deepening political divides.
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Is #NegativeCampaigning linked with higher #AffectivePolarization? you bet

In this new open-access chapter @ealasaid.bsky.social and I discuss the literature & present novel experimental evidence - also linking incivility with support for #PoliticalViolence

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Symbolic Leverage: Nominating (Non)veiled Women as an Electoral Competition Strategy in Polarized Turkey | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core Symbolic Leverage: Nominating (Non)veiled Women as an Electoral Competition Strategy in Polarized Turkey

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#PoliticalScience #GenderSky #ElectoralStrategy #NewResearch #OpenAccess #SymbolicPolitics #AcademicSky
#TurkishPolitics
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#PoliticalSymbols

This research foregrounds affective polarization and political symbols as the primary drivers shaping both the strategic inclusion of women in politics and their instrumentalization within broader electoral campaigns. #AffectivePolarization

Interested in #AffectivePolarization? Check out our special issue on "Affective polarisation in the Low Countries" now available in #OpenAccess down below ⬇️

Editorial by @luanarusso.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social at plc-journal.eu/article/view...

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Divided by morality? Moral foundations of affective polarisation during hard times - Victoria Haerter, Maximilian Filsinger, Markus Freitag, 2025 In this article, we examine the deeper causes of a key group conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic: attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccination. Extending resear...

Our study sheds light on the psychological roots of #AffectivePolarization.

Understanding how moral foundations shape group perceptions is key to tackling polarization in public health & beyond #Polarization #MoralPsychology #Vaccination
Check out the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0263...

🚨 New article out at EJPR with the dream team @fredericofs.bsky.social Loes Aaldering @kgattermann.bsky.social Diego Garzia

TLDR: dark personality traits (esp. Machiav.) in in-party candidates are associated with higher #AffectivePolarization

Article: tinyurl.com/4wnuhcad
Open data: osf.io/2c7w4/

Check out this research published in Politics of the Low Countries 🤩

🆓 Available OPEN access

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Shanto Iyengar of Stanford University

Shanto Iyengar of Stanford says, "The unparalleled ANES time series data have made possible the discovery of an entirely new subfield of American politics - the phenomenon of affective polarization or animus across the party divide. #ANES75th #AffectivePolarization #polisky

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“Partisan Antipathy and the Erosion of Democratic Norms”

Tests whether #AffectivePolarization (feeling thermometer), #PoliticalSectarianism, or both/neither predict antidemocratic tendencies.

w Alex Landry, Jamie Druckman, @jayvanbavel.bsky.social, and Rick Hoyle

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