Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00265-4
Roderik Rekker, Eelco Harteveld
Political opponents are often divided not only in their attitudes (i.e., ideological polarization) and their feelings toward each other (i.e., affective polarization), but also in their factual perceptions of reality (i.e., factual belief polarization). This paper describes factual belief polarization in the Netherlands around three core issues. Furthermore, this paper examines who are most susceptible to this type of polarization. Analyses on the 2021 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study reveal that citizens hold different perceptions than their political opponents about income inequality, immigration, and climate change. This type of polarization is strongest among citizens who have hostile feelings toward their political opponents and, paradoxically, among those who are highly educated and interested in politics. Trust in epistemic authorities did not mitigate factual belief polarization, perhaps because this trust has itself become politicized. These findings underline that factual belief polarization constitutes a core pillar of political polarization, alongside ideological and affective polarization.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1057/s41269-021-00225-4
C. Eijk
{"title":"Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe","authors":"C. Eijk","doi":"10.1057/s41269-021-00225-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-021-00225-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"57 1","pages":"880-884"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58524050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00261-8
T. Hedegaard, C. Larsen
{"title":"The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark","authors":"T. Hedegaard, C. Larsen","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00261-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00261-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"717 - 736"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43274719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00259-2
Kees van Kersbergen
{"title":"Hans Keman and Jaap J. Woldendorp, Transportation and the state: governing the public domain","authors":"Kees van Kersbergen","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00259-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00259-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"714 - 716"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42562904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-10DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00257-4
T. Hedegaard
{"title":"Taxes, redistribution and culture: attitudes towards distribution of the tax burden among eight migrant groups in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany","authors":"T. Hedegaard","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00257-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00257-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"634 - 650"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43016134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00255-6
Michael Maier, Ines C. Welzenbach-Vogel, C. Christner, Erik R. Tillman, Axel Zinkernagel, Manfred J. Schmitt
{"title":"Implicit and explicit populist and anti-immigrant attitudes and their explanatory power for populist radical-right party support","authors":"Michael Maier, Ines C. Welzenbach-Vogel, C. Christner, Erik R. Tillman, Axel Zinkernagel, Manfred J. Schmitt","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00255-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00255-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"591 - 613"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48769052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00253-8
Glenn Kefford, B. Moffitt, Annika Werner
{"title":"Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes","authors":"Glenn Kefford, B. Moffitt, Annika Werner","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00253-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00253-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"424-447"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41476420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-02DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00254-7
R. Eissler, C. Green-Pedersen, Matt W. Loftis, Peter B. Mortensen, Annelise Russell
{"title":"Correction: The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament","authors":"R. Eissler, C. Green-Pedersen, Matt W. Loftis, Peter B. Mortensen, Annelise Russell","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00254-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00254-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49417614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00252-9
Marc Guinjoan
{"title":"How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain","authors":"Marc Guinjoan","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00252-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00252-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"401-423"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45570366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}