João Areal
@jnareal
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PhD @MZESUniMannheim, currently visiting @UvA_AISSR. Affective polarisation, negative partisanship, Brazilian politics. RTs are performative endorsements.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined June 2009
Now out in @ElectoralStdies (open access): https://t.co/4K58Tdulor In this paper I provide empirical evidence for the argument that negative partisanship is more than just "party disdain", but a type of social identity with important consequences for social cohesion.
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What do citizens imagine their political opponents to be like? Polarization is real, but it also lives in our heads, fueled by stereotypes. We asked people in 🇧🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪🇵🇱 to describe opponents in their own words. With @jnareal,@MarkusWagnerAT& @PiotrMarczyski
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Political stereotypes — beliefs about the attributes of politically defined groups — can deepen polarization by obscuring commonalities among citizens. Yet little is known about their nature outside...
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Sally Rooney casually mentioning R and FIFA 😭 I’ve never felt more seen. The woman will simply not miss
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Check out this great new open-access resource: the Handbook of Affective Polarization, edited by @MarianoTorcal & @EelcoHarteveld! 📘 And if you’re interested in negative partisanship, take a look at Chapter 12—joint work with @jnareal. 😊 #AffectivePolarization #OpenAccess
30 Chapters with amazing contribuitors. It is open access, pre-registered preprint: Torcal, M., & Harteveld, E. (2024, November 1). Handbook of Affective Polarization. https://t.co/kihHxBkOSU
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I have the honor to share the Handbook of Affective Polarization that I co-edit with @EelcoHarteveld. It is open access, pre-registered preprint: Torcal, M., & Harteveld, E. (2024, November 1). Handbook of Affective Polarization. https://t.co/kihHxBlmIs
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Now out (open access) in @ElectoralStdies:
New working paper with @EelcoHarteveld: https://t.co/K1bZoZcbff Do feelings towards parties capture feelings towards their voters? Researchers of affective polarization are often interested in the latter, but rely on the former. Analysing data from 10 countries, we find that...
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How does age affect political attitudes and behaviour? My brilliant co-author James Tilley @Politics_Oxford has made a great series of short radio programmes on @BBCRadio4 on how the young (and not so young) vote and form opinions Listen here: https://t.co/VihguIuv1i
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James Tilley investigates how young people become attached to particular political parties
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"Even if public opinion is becoming more supportive and less polarized in the aggregate, the differences that remain now matter more for voters' decisions at the polls." A nice lesson on the effects and perceptions of 'polarisation'
When do attitudes on abortion or same-sex marriage influence voting behavior in Latin America? Now on Open Access FirstView with @BJPolS: my article with @AmyEricaSmith, "Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates." https://t.co/sU2J4WwBHk.
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Our findings speak to recent works by @PepComellas and @NoamGidron on the relation between the two types of evaluations, and broader methodological debates on how to measure AP across countries.
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In conclusion, the widely available party sympathy measure does tell us something about inter-citizen hostility - but this proxy is far from perfect and it may work better/worse for certain types of individuals.
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(2) To the extent that people do differentiate between parties and their voters, they seem to "punish" voters of populist and ideologically distant parties.
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(1) The overall correlation between party and voter sympathy is high, but this is confounded by group status: correlations are much lower when looking specifically at in- or out-groups.
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New working paper with @EelcoHarteveld: https://t.co/K1bZoZcbff Do feelings towards parties capture feelings towards their voters? Researchers of affective polarization are often interested in the latter, but rely on the former. Analysing data from 10 countries, we find that...
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