When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain

Affective polarisation measured with feelings towards parties tends to overestimate the degree to which people dislike voters of opposing parties. This paper explores some of the factors that account for the gap between party affective polarisation (PAP) and voter affective polarisation (VAP). In pa...

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Autor: Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria
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Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2022
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Palavra-chave:Voter affective polarisation
Party affective polarisation
Ideological polarisation
Social sorting
Spain
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spelling When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in SpainComellas Bonsfills, Josep MariaVoter affective polarisationParty affective polarisationIdeological polarisationSocial sortingSpainAffective polarisation measured with feelings towards parties tends to overestimate the degree to which people dislike voters of opposing parties. This paper explores some of the factors that account for the gap between party affective polarisation (PAP) and voter affective polarisation (VAP). In particular, I first argue and show that the PAP-VAP gap increases with ideological distance between individuals and out-parties, although this difference begins to decrease after a certain level of ideological discrepancy is achieved. Second, social sorting increases the probability that individuals extend their antipathy towards parties to their voters, thus reducing the PAP-VAP gap. Third, whereas ideological distance leads to VAP among individuals with low levels of social sorting, it does not make a difference for socially sorted people. I discuss the relevance of these two factors by utilising the third wave of the E-DEM panel. The results have relevant implications for the consequences of affective polarisation.The research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport [grant reference FPU15/06231] and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [project reference CSO2016-79772-P, 2017–2019, PI: Mariano Torcal].Elsevier202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56866http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102525reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésElectoral Studies. 2022;79:102525.https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/6bt6r8cn2r/3info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-79772-P© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/568662026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
spellingShingle When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria
Voter affective polarisation
Party affective polarisation
Ideological polarisation
Social sorting
Spain
title_short When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
title_full When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
title_fullStr When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
title_full_unstemmed When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
title_sort When polarised feelings towards parties spread to voters: the role of ideological distance and social sorting in Spain
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria
author Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria
author_facet Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Voter affective polarisation
Party affective polarisation
Ideological polarisation
Social sorting
Spain
topic Voter affective polarisation
Party affective polarisation
Ideological polarisation
Social sorting
Spain
description Affective polarisation measured with feelings towards parties tends to overestimate the degree to which people dislike voters of opposing parties. This paper explores some of the factors that account for the gap between party affective polarisation (PAP) and voter affective polarisation (VAP). In particular, I first argue and show that the PAP-VAP gap increases with ideological distance between individuals and out-parties, although this difference begins to decrease after a certain level of ideological discrepancy is achieved. Second, social sorting increases the probability that individuals extend their antipathy towards parties to their voters, thus reducing the PAP-VAP gap. Third, whereas ideological distance leads to VAP among individuals with low levels of social sorting, it does not make a difference for socially sorted people. I discuss the relevance of these two factors by utilising the third wave of the E-DEM panel. The results have relevant implications for the consequences of affective polarisation.
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