Affective polarization and consensus building among parliamentary elites

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• dc.contributor.author Sánchez-Ferrer, Leonardo
• dc.contributor.author Torcal, Mariano
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-26T07:14:37Z
• dc.date.available 2024-09-26T07:14:37Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 25-09-2024
• dc.description.abstract This article presents evidence that political representatives in Spain exhibit significant levels of affective polarization, drawing on data from a 2022 to 2023 survey of Spanish Members of Parliament (MPs) in the national and regional parliaments. These attitudes, measured by affective social distance from supporters of other parties,hinder parliamentary agreements but only in regional parliaments, a tendency that is especially visible among leftist and nationalist representatives toward supporters of the new radical right-wing party (VOX). By contrast, there is no evidence that affective social affinity is associated with less consensual attitudes. Given the absence of studies on affective polarization among political elites, these findings are important because they suggest that, although elites might contribute to the growing trends of pernicious polarization among their supporters and may deteriorate compromise at the regional level, this kind of polarization does not necessarily preclude consensus and agreement in national politics.
• dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The data on which this research is based come from the project ‘The social construction of political consensus in multiparty settings’ (PID2019-108667GB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Mariano Torcal wants to thank the ICREA ACADEMIA Intense Research Award for the additional funding.
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• dc.identifier.citation Sánchez-Ferrer L, Torcal M. Affective polarization and consensus building among parliamentary elites. Am Behav Sci. 2024 Sep 25. DOI: 10.1177/00027642241285147
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642241285147
• dc.identifier.issn 0002-7642
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61232
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof American Behavioral Scientist. 2024 Sep 25
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-108667GB-I00
• dc.rights Sánchez-Ferrer L, Torcal M, Affective polarization and consensus building among parliamentary elites, American Behavioral Scientist. 2024 Sep 25. Copyright © 2024 by SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/00027642241285147.
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• dc.subject.keyword Affective polarization
• dc.subject.keyword Consensus
• dc.subject.keyword Parliament
• dc.subject.keyword MPs
• dc.subject.keyword Spain
• dc.title Affective polarization and consensus building among parliamentary elites
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