2023/09/01 by Thomas Tichelbaecker, Noam Gidron, Will Horne +1 · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Social Media and Politics
paper · doi:10.1093/poq/nfad033
Abstract Measures of affective polarization—that is, dislike and hostility across party lines—have been developed and validated in the context of America’s two-party system. Yet increasingly, affective polarization is examined comparatively. We address this issue by introducing a novel dataset that measures aspects of partisan affect in 10 countries with diverse party systems. We detect associations between partisan affect toward out-parties versus affect toward out-parties’ supporters, but their strength varies across countries. We discuss measurement reasons for this variation and consider the implications of our findings for the emerging comparative affective polarization literature.