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: The authors examines the discursive and stylistic dimensions of the construction and maintenance of the populism/anti-populism divide in Western Europe, paying particular attention to how antipopulists seek to discredit populist leaders, parties and followers.

TL;DR: This article explored how mass polarization impacts the preconditions for such discourse and found that strong social attachments to one's party consistently drive antideliberative attitudes toward disagreement; ideological partisan attachment, however, does not have this effect.

TL;DR: Democracy is under threat today and scholars agree that the main challenge is not sudden regime breakdown, but rather the gradual erosion of key institutions and norms because of growing public distrust as discussed by the authors.