Separated by degrees: social closure by education levels strengthens contemporary political divides

J De Jong, J Kamphorst - Comparative Political Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Across Western democracies, education levels are predictive of immigration attitudes and
voting for new left or far right parties. What explains education-based political divides? This …

Does Interaction With Out-Party Elites in a Classroom Setting Diminish Negative Partisanship?

S Frederick, MG Miller… - American Politics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The American electorate is increasingly affectively polarized. Partisans dislike members of
the opposing party, even going so far as to discriminate against opposing partisans in …

Enduring divides?: social networks and the entrenchment of political polarization

JF DE JONG - 2024 - cadmus.eui.eu
This thesis advances a relational approach to study the durability of sociocultural
polarization between citizens with and without tertiary education in Western democracies …

Integrated or Segregated? User Behavior Change after Cross-Party Interactions on Reddit

Y Xia, C Monti, B Keller, M Kivelä - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04923, 2024 - arxiv.org
It has been a widely shared concern that social media reinforces echo chambers of like-
minded users and exacerbate political polarization. While fostering interactions across party …