Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?

TL;DR: This paper used text analysis to substantiate that thermometer scores reflect sentiment towards party supporters, and demonstrate that they go hand-in-hand with preferences for social distance and discrimination in economic games.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that demarcations between political camps deepen affective polarization, and country-level factors influence the relevance of these affective divides, and that affect is most polarized between Left and Right camps, and between the Radical Right and other camps.

TL;DR: In this article , the consequences of the increasing presence of both left- and right-wing populist parties in government, critically reflecting on the recent scholarship on the topic, underlining promising venues for future research and outlining a conceptual framework which constitutes the background of this special issue entitled ‘Populism in Power and its Consequences’.

TL;DR: In this article , the role of emotions as a mechanism by which perceived threats against the ingroup are a source of increased affective polarization was examined, and the authors concluded that individuals distance themselves from supporters of opposing political parties when they perceive a threat to their ingroup and subsequently react with anger.

TL;DR: This paper used like-dislike scores, a widespread measure of party sympathy, to measure the extent to which citizens feel sympathy towards partisan in-groups and antagonism towards partisan out-groups.

TL;DR: PopuList as mentioned in this paper is a list of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties that obtained at least 2% of the vote in at least one national parliamentary election since 1998.

TL;DR: Hetherington and Rudolph as discussed by the authors argue that a contemporary crisis of trust-people whose party is out of power have almost no trust in a government run by the other side-has deadlocked Congress.

TL;DR: This article found that partisans discriminate against their opponents to a degree that exceeds discrimination against members of religious, linguistic, ethnic or regional outgroups in four nations: Great Britain, the United States, Belgium and Spain.