Culture wars? Assessing the impact of affective polarisation on cultural battles

Roula Nezi, Georgios Karyotis and Iakovos Makropoulos

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Abstract: How does division in society along cultural issues influence affective polarisation? This paper argues that affective polarisation expressed as a group identity on the basis of partisanship can enforce inter-group conflicts on cultural and austerity issues. In our study we employ data from a newly collected data in Greece. Our analysis suggests that cultural and austerity issues reinforced divides and inter-group conflicts even today. Our findings have implications for understanding how affective polarisation can be conditional on views towards cultural and economic issues.

Keywords: affective polarisation; austerity; cultural issues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2023-11-01
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