ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
The emergence and perils of polarization.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Disciplining the digital public: Platform mechanisms and the dynamics of emotional polarization.PloS one · 2026Article
- How opinion variation among in-groups can skew perceptions of ideological polarization.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Intuitive judgements towards artificial intelligence verdicts of moral transgressions.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- How the manner in which data is visualized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- Social identity correlates of social media engagement before and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Understanding political divisiveness using online participation data from the 2022 French and Brazilian presidential elections.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Transformation of social relationships in COVID-19 America: Remote communication may amplify political echo chambers.Science advances · 2023Article
- Social Depolarization and Diversity of Opinions-Unified ABM Framework.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Quantifying ideological polarization on a network using generalized Euclidean distance.Science advances · 2023Article
- Cognitive-motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts.Nature reviews psychology · 2022Review
- The dynamics of political polarization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
We provide commentaries on the papers included in the Dynamics of Political Polarization Special Feature. Baldassarri reads the contribution of the papers in light of the theoretical distinction between ideological partisanship, which is generally rooted in sociodemographic and political cleavages, and affective partisanship, which is, instead, mostly fueled by emotional attachment and repulsion, rather than ideology and material interests. The latter, she argues, is likely to lead to a runaway process and threaten the pluralistic bases of contemporary democracy. Page sees the contribution of the many distinct models in the ensemble as potentially contributing more than the parts. Individual papers identify distinct causes of polarization as well as potential solutions. Viewed collectively, the papers suggest that the multiple causes of polarization may self-reinforce, which suggests that successful interventions would require a variety of efforts. Understanding how to construct such interventions may require larger models with greater realism.
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