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Abstract
Prior research shows that public opinion on climate politics sorts along partisan lines. However, they leave open the question of whether climate politics and other politically salient issues exhibit tendencies for issue alignment, which the political polarization literature identifies as among the most deleterious aspects of polarization. Using a network approach and social media data from the Twitter platform, we study polarization of public opinion toward climate politics and ten other politically salient topics during the 2019 Finnish elections as the emergence of opposing groups in a public forum. We find that while climate politics is not particularly polarized compared to the other topics, it is subject to partisan sorting and issue alignment within the universalist-communitarian dimension of European politics that arose following the growth of right-wing populism. Notably, climate politics is consistently aligned with the immigration issue, and temporal trends indicate that this phenomenon will likely persist.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 102348 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Global Environmental Change |
Volume | 71 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2021 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Climate politics
- Issue alignment
- Partisan sorting
- Political polarization
- Social networks
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The network data set used in the article "Separating Controversy from Noise: Comparison and Normalization of Structural Polarization Measures"
Salloum, A. (Creator), Chen, T. H. Y. (Creator) & Kivelä, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4434245, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4434245 and 2 more links, https://github.com/alesalloum/normalized_polarization, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07009 (show fewer)
Dataset
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Polarized and nonpolarized Twitter networks from the 2019 Finnish Parliamentary Elections
Salloum, A. (Creator), Chen, T. (Creator) & Kivelä, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 12 Jan 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4434244, https://zenodo.org/record/8434372
Dataset
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- 1 Finished
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ECANET: Echo Chambers, Experts and Activists: Networks of Mediated Political Communication
Kivelä, M. (Principal investigator)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding