The role of (social) media in political polarization: a systematic review

E Kubin, C Von Sikorski - Annals of the International …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Rising political polarization is, in part, attributed to the fragmentation of news media and the
spread of misinformation on social media. Previous reviews have yet to assess the full …

Polarization and social media: A systematic review and research agenda

SD Arora, GP Singh, A Chakraborty, M Maity - … Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
The world of today presents a duality of phenomenal progress and persistent ills. Amid such
existential contradictions, public deliberation forms one of the central pillars of a functional …

Large language models can be used to estimate the latent positions of politicians

PY Wu, J Nagler, JA Tucker, S Messing - arxiv preprint arxiv:2303.12057, 2023 - arxiv.org
Existing approaches to estimating politicians' latent positions along specific dimensions
often fail when relevant data is limited. We leverage the embedded knowledge in generative …

Mask-wearing as a partisan issue: Social identity and communication of party norms on social media among political elites

J Shin, A Yang, W Liu, H Min Kim… - Social Media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study draws on the social identity approach (SIA), to examine how political elites (ie,
members of the 116th United States Congress) communicated norms about mask-wearing …

Political oppositions in democratic and authoritarian regimes: A state-of-the-field (s) review

L Helms - Government and Opposition, 2023 - cambridge.org
Political opposition has long been one of the most dramatically understudied elements of
real-world politics in contemporary democratic and authoritarian regimes. The past decade …

Online incivility in the 2020 congressional elections

M Heseltine, S Dorsey - Political Research Quarterly, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores the prevalence and correlates of political incivility among
Congressional candidates in the 2020 election cycle, focusing specifically on which types of …

Conditional Congressional communication: how elite speech varies across medium

R Blum, L Cormack, K Shoub - Political Science Research and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Elected representatives have more means of public-facing communication at their disposal
than ever before. Several studies examine how representatives use individual mediums, but …

Social media and policy responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic in Switzerland

F Gilardi, T Gessler, M Kubli… - Swiss Political Science …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We study the role of social media in debates regarding two policy responses to COVID‐19 in
Switzerland: face‐mask rules and contact‐tracing apps. We use a dictionary classifier to …

Local orientation in the US House of Representatives

P Ban, J Kaslovsky - American Journal of Political Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
What drives legislators to emphasize local issues in a nationalized setting? Although the
representation literature has highlighted why legislators present themselves as district‐or …

The Supreme Court and the dynamics of democratic backsliding

AZ Huq - The Annals of the American Academy of Political …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the role of the US Supreme Court in contemporary democratic
backsliding. I identify three dynamics that have placed American democracy under strain:(1) …