Mass Partisan Polarization: Measuring a Relational Concept
| Autor: | Alban Lauka, Rengin B. Firat, Jennifer L. McCoy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
021110 strategic defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology 05 social sciences Polarization (politics) 0211 other engineering and technologies General Social Sciences 02 engineering and technology 0506 political science Education Theoretical physics 050602 political science & public administration Economics |
| Zdroj: | American Behavioral Scientist. 62:107-126 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3381 0002-7642 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0002764218759581 |
| Popis: | With recent political developments sparking sharp divisions within democracies, an understanding of the dynamics of polarization is ever more necessary. Yet we still lack the tools necessary for its comparative study at the mass level. Finding that conventional measures of polarization as ideological distance between parties or among voters do not fully capture political polarization, we develop a new index of mass partisan polarization based on support and rejection of political parties by the public. We argue that measuring polarization over political parties allows us to capture divisions over a broader range of identities or issues which parties can represent or take positions on. Using Comparative Study of Electoral Systems data, our empirical validity tests support this argument. It is our hope that this index may facilitate the further comparative study of mass political polarization on a global scale. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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