Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum
Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum
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DOI：
10.1017/s0007123420000125
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发表时间：
2021-10-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Tilley, James
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作者：
Hobolt, Sara B.;Leeper, Thomas J.;Tilley, James
一个运作良好的民主国家需要一定程度的相互尊重和跨越政治分歧进行对话的意愿。然而，许多研究表明，许多选民沿着党派路线两极分化，对党派外群体怀有敌意。这篇文章进一步发展了情感极化的概念，不是通过党派之争，而是通过认同以意见为基础的群体。该研究考察了英国2016年欧盟成员国公投期间形成的社会身份，使用调查和实验来衡量党派和英国退欧相关情感极化的强度。结果显示，英国脱欧身份普遍存在，被认为是个人重要的，并跨越了传统的政党路线。这些身份产生的情感极化与党派偏见一样强烈，在刻板印象，偏见和各种评价偏见方面，令人信服地表明，情感极化可以从超越党派的身份中产生。
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 important and cut across traditional party lines. These identities generate affective polarization as intense as that of partisanship in terms of stereotyping, prejudice and various evaluative biases, convincingly demonstrating that affective polarization can emerge from identities beyond partisanship.