If we were to imagine the European Union as one unified political space, what would be the issues that polarise parties the most? Here is my analysis with EU&I data from 2019.
In sum: regional (self-interest) patterns tend to dominate over ideological affiliations.

kuku.pleier.ee/podcast/teadus… Ajasin eile Kuku raadios veidike (afektiivse) polariseerituse juttu!

In a few hours, I will be giving a talk on - as per usual - affective polarization. Unless you are in Dresden, you can tune in on Zoom if you wanna hear what I have to say!

🗓️Join us on Jan 9, 2024, at 4:30 PM for Andres Reiljan lecture: 'Fear and loathing across party lines: Affective #polarization in comparative perspective'.

👉 Register here: tu-dresden.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

💡 Est. in 2009, the EUI initiative, the Voting Advance Application, is here for the 🇪🇺 2024 European elections to map and analyse the European political space.

Join us tomorrow to learn more about the project and explore a potential collaboration with our team!🤝

Kõik tublid noored Eesti politoloogid, sotsioloogid, ajaloolased, õigus- ja majandusteadlased...Kandideerige European University Institute-sse doktorantuuri! Mina 9 aastat tagasi kandideerisin, läksin, ja ei kahetse. Homme Zoom'is saate Maarja Saluste käest rohkem infot.

Explaining to the colleagues The Robert Schuman Centre what we have to go through to make sense of affective polarization in multiparty systems. USA = Party like-dislike matrix with 4 cells, Sweden = Party like-dislike matrix with 64 cells…

Thank you to all who sent abstracts for this semester's PBC.🙌 See below for the Oct-Dec 2023 schedule.

We will send another call for papers out in November for Jan-June 2024, so keep an eye out. To join our mailing list, contact: [email protected]

Comparing levels of party affective polarization (PAP) and leader affective polarization (LAP), Andres Reiljan, Diego Garzia, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, & Alexander H.Trechsel illuminate LAP as systematically lower than PAP with the US as the only exception.
#APSR
#APSR FirstView
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Happy and also very surreal to see my master’s thesis published as a single-authored paper in the EJPR journal 🥂

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

In this paper, I explore the crucial link between polarization and citizens’ response to electoral victory and loss
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Last week, RECSM brought together leading academics in a series of workshops on the topic of #AffectivePolarization .

Thank you to all those who contributed to such a rich debate and the making of the handbook of affective polarization, expected to be published in late 2024!

A new article came out that moves beyond the party-centric definition of affective polarization, like my forthcoming book Populism and Affective Leader Polarization: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Opposition.

The authors of the article found that Turkey has the highest score of

🌳 What is the added value of adopting a regional approach?

Luca Bettarelli Andres Reiljan Emilie van Haute use data from CSES to investigate the scope of regional variations in levels of #affectivepolarization across #Europe

👉 bit.ly/3K5E1mY #OA

Our paper on 'A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization' with Andres Reiljan & Luca Bettarelli is now out in vol.62 EJPR journal
#polarization #regions #Europe
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

#Estonia holds a general election today. In case you are a foreigner wondering who to root for tonight: This year, the voting advice application Valijakompass is available also in English! Try it out at: euandi2019.eui.eu/survey/en/vali…
#valimised2023

Is affective polarization on the rise in Western democracies?

In this new #openaccess article w/Diego Garzia & Simon Maye, just out in Public Opinion Quarterly (aapor), we carry a longitudinal analysis of affective polarization in 18 Western democracies
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-ar…

It just came out the complete especial issue on comparative affective polarization that I co-authored with Andres Reiljan and Lisa Zanotti. It contains 8 great articles. Thanks to all contributors:
Affective polarization in comparative perspective frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…