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Now out at PNAS Nexus! "Affective polarization is uniformly distributed across American states" with Yphtach Lelkes and Sean Westwood. The hits keep coming for Polarization Research Lab 💪 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

Join us for the European Consortium for Political Research joint sessions in Prague!! Hannah Werner and I are organizing a panel on citizens' democratic commitments in polarised times 📅 May 20-23, 2025 🕛Submission deadline: 21-11-24 📝Submit here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event/W…

"In-party love, out-party hate, and affective polarization in twelve established democracies" has been accepted for publication in Public Opinion Quarterly. You can read the accepted version here: tinyurl.com/4772mnhe Short thread below summarizing the article's key points.

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ Happy to see my paper on "Populist Rhetoric and the Electoral Fortunes of Mainstream Parties" being accepted (conditional on replication) at PSRM Journal❗️ Read the full 📰 here: osf.io/wb8ev A quick summary in the 🧵 below:

I have the honor to share the Handbook of Affective Polarization that I co-edit with Eelco Harteveld. It is open access, pre-registered preprint: Torcal, M., & Harteveld, E. (2024, November 1). Handbook of Affective Polarization. doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… UPF Barcelona RECSM-UPF

Are individuals facing economic insecurities more affectively polarised? Based on survey data from 11 European countries, Jochem Vanagt & Luana Russo 🇮🇹🇧🇪🇳🇱 find that it is unlikely that economic hardship plays a role in shaping affective polarisation. doi.org/10.1177/205316…

What democratic alternatives do populists and their supporters want? Our new open access issue examines citizens' preferences for stealth democracy, expert rule, direct democracy, and populists' views on referendums. Issue: shorturl.at/oOmI2 Davide Vittori Markus Wagner

Now in American Political Science Review: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find they have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

Yesterday, our research group joined forces with the Faculty of Social Science student club PSW (UniversityAntwerpFSW) to organize a US Election Night in which various of our members gave a key note talk on key topics on the #Election2024 in the US

Dreigt polarisatie zoals in de VS ook Europa te verlammen? In mijn opinie in De Tijd bespreek ik wat affectieve polarisatie voor onze samenleving betekent en welke lessen we kunnen trekken uit de VS. De Tijd Zie 👇 tijd.be/opinie/algemee…

🗓️On 5 December, the Pol Comm and Persuasive Comm divisions of NeFCA are organizing a Practitioners' Event on Political Campaigning! We extended the deadline to subscribe to 24/11 due to an update in the program. We hope to see many of you there! All info 👇👇

🚨Does elite ideological polarization lead to mass ideological polarization? My latest article in European Journal of Political Research (EJPR journal) provides **limited** evidence that it is the case. Let's break it down 🧵

🆕United in #success or fragmented in failure? 🤔 Using the #ComparativeStudyofElectoralSystems data 📊 Jochem Vanagt & Markus Kollberg question whether democratic institutions can mitigate affective polarization to make #Coalitions affective. 📑 👉 ow.ly/hq9Y50VtakX #OA

📘 Based on EJPR journal research, Jochem Vanagt & Markus Kollberg (ECPR_POVB) show that #Coalition governments bring voters of different parties closer together only if people believe those coalitions are doing a good job 👍. bit.ly/4k0lKs3