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1. Political instability and economic growth

   Alberto Alesina, Sule �zler, Nouriel Roubini, et al. · 1996 · Journal of Economic Growth · 1,826 cites

2. Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature

   Joshua A. Tucker, Andrew M. Guess, Pablo Barberá, et al. · 2018 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 1,231 cites

3. Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

   Peter Van Aelst, Jesper Strömbäck, Toril Aalberg, et al. · 2017 · Annals of the International Communication Association · 974 cites

   During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media

4. Political Polarization on Twitter

   Michael Conover, A. Ratkiewicz, Matthew Francisco, et al. · 2021 · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 641 cites

   In this study we investigate how social media shape the networked public sphere and facilitate communication between communities with different political orientations. We examine two networks of political communication on Twitter, comprised of more than 250,000 tweets from the six weeks leading up to the 2010 U.S. congressional midterm elections. Using a combination of network clustering algorithms and manually-annotated data we demonstrate that the network of political retweets exhibits a highly segregated partisan structure, with extremely limited connectivity between left- and right-leaning users. Surprisingly this is not the case for the user-to-user mention network, which is dominated b

5. Toward a Theory of Pernicious Polarization and How It Harms Democracies: Comparative Evidence and Possible Remedies

   Jennifer McCoy, Murat Somer · 2018 · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 594 cites

   This article compares the dynamics of polarization in the eleven case studies analyzed in this special issue to draw conclusions about antecedents of severe political and societal polarization, the characteristics and mechanisms of such polarization, and consequences of severe polarization for democracy. We find that the emergence of pernicious polarization (when a society is split into mutually distrustful “Us vs. Them” camps) is not attributable to any specific underlying social or political cleavage nor any particular institutional make-up. Instead, pernicious polarization arises when political entrepreneurs pursue their political objectives by using polarizing strategies, such as mobiliz

6. Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media

   Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Maria Petrova, Рубен Ениколопов · 2020 · Annual Review of Economics · 561 cites

   How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that considers traits that distinguish the Internet and social media from traditional off-line media, such as low barriers to entry and reliance on user-generated content. We discuss the main results about the effects of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, on voting, street protests, attitudes toward government, political polarization, xenophobia, and politicians’ behavior. We also review evidence on the role of social media in the dissemination of fake news, and we summarize results about the strategies emp

7. Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum

   Sara B. Hobolt, Thomas J. Leeper, James Tilley · 2020 · British Journal of Political Science · 497 cites

   Abstract A well-functioning democracy requires a degree of mutual respect and a willingness to talk across political divides. Yet numerous studies have shown that many electorates are polarized along partisan lines, with animosity towards the partisan out-group. This article further develops the idea of affective polarization, not by partisanship, but instead by identification with opinion-based groups. Examining social identities formed during Britain's 2016 referendum on European Union membership, the study uses surveys and experiments to measure the intensity of partisan and Brexit-related affective polarization. The results show that Brexit identities are prevalent, felt to be personally

8. Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media

   Moran Yarchi, Christian Baden, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik · 2020 · Political Communication · 438 cites

   Political polarization on the digital sphere poses a real challenge to many democracies around the world. Although the issue has received some scholarly attention, there is a need to improve the conceptual precision in the increasingly blurry debate. The use of computational communication science approaches allows us to track political conversations in a fine-grained manner within their natural settings – the realm of interactive social media. The present study combines different algorithmic approaches to studying social media data in order to capture both the interactional structure and content of dynamic political talk online. We conducted an analysis of political polarization across socia