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題名 Winners, losers, and affective polarization
作者 黃于萱
Huang, Yu-Shiuan;Andrews, Josephine
貢獻者 政治系
關鍵詞 affective polarization; in-party favoritism; losers; social identity theory; winners
日期 2025-09
上傳時間 24-Sep-2025 09:38:08 (UTC+8)
摘要 We analyze the winner-loser gap in affective polarization. Using data from 37 countries over years 1996 – 2016 from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), we find that winners’ affective polarization is significantly greater than losers’, and the difference is due to winners’ consistently higher in-party favoritism. These findings are robust when controlling for partisanship and ideological distance to winning party. Although much of the literature focuses on the impact of out-party dislike on affective polarization, our results align with research in social identity theory indicating that intergroup discrimination is driven primarily by in-group favoritism rather than out-group dislike. Given that winners are more likely than losers to support their favored party’s violation of democratic norms, our work suggests that in-party favoritism is an important but overlooked contributor to problematic implications of affective polarization.
關聯 Party Politics, Vol.31, No.5, pp.841-853
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688241292556
dc.contributor 政治系
dc.creator (作者) 黃于萱
dc.creator (作者) Huang, Yu-Shiuan;Andrews, Josephine
dc.date (日期) 2025-09
dc.date.accessioned 24-Sep-2025 09:38:08 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 24-Sep-2025 09:38:08 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 24-Sep-2025 09:38:08 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/159613-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) We analyze the winner-loser gap in affective polarization. Using data from 37 countries over years 1996 – 2016 from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), we find that winners’ affective polarization is significantly greater than losers’, and the difference is due to winners’ consistently higher in-party favoritism. These findings are robust when controlling for partisanship and ideological distance to winning party. Although much of the literature focuses on the impact of out-party dislike on affective polarization, our results align with research in social identity theory indicating that intergroup discrimination is driven primarily by in-group favoritism rather than out-group dislike. Given that winners are more likely than losers to support their favored party’s violation of democratic norms, our work suggests that in-party favoritism is an important but overlooked contributor to problematic implications of affective polarization.
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dc.relation (關聯) Party Politics, Vol.31, No.5, pp.841-853
dc.subject (關鍵詞) affective polarization; in-party favoritism; losers; social identity theory; winners
dc.title (題名) Winners, losers, and affective polarization
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1177/13540688241292556
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688241292556