Affective Polarization towards Parties and Leaders, and Electoral ...
Feb 13, 2025 · Using post-electoral survey data covering 87 elections from 13 Western parliamentary democracies collected between 1980 and 2019, our results confirm that polarized feelings toward …
Polarization, Democracy & Political Violence in the U.S.: What the ...
Jul 10, 2024 · U.S. politicians’ strong ideological polarization has been increasing since the 1990s, and is largely due to local party procedures and primary elections. Most voters, however, are much less …
Voter turnout in the 2020 and 2024 elections: A detailed analysis
Jun 26, 2025 · The spike in voter turnout is at least partly attributable to intensifying political polarization during the past decade, a period in which growing partisan antipathy has raised the stakes of …
The Impact of Voter Turnout on Polarization
Political extremism and polarization are at their highest levels in over a century, while civic participation plus trust and approval of Congress are at near all-time lows. Gridlock, obstruction, and resistance …
Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States ...
Sep 5, 2023 · It is easy to assume that polarized voters are selecting more polarized leaders—and that theory may hold true for recent primary elections. However, that is not the main story.
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization
Feb 1, 2024 · Our article introduced a new argument about the normative significance of electoral turnout: in majoritarian systems where voters can threaten to abstain due to alienation, low turnout …
The Impact of U.S. Political Polarization - The Science Survey
Mar 14, 2023 · Over the past decade, America has undeniably been influenced by political division. Despite the accepted belief that government is improved by the existence of opposing parties, the …
The Effect of Perceived Polarization on Voter Turnout
Given that voter turnout is one valuable measure of democratic success, this investigation sets out to answer the question of what level of perceived polarization is optimal in a democracy, to maximize …
Considering these points, this research paper seeks to identify whether rising political partisanship and extreme polarization affect the disillusionment of teenage voters in the political process of voting; do …
Empirical support for this argument is provided by analysis of voter turnout in elections from 26 countries between 1945 and 2013.1 I begin by elaborating on the central theory that polarization and number …