Levels of Polarization

Elite Polarization

Measures

Measure Polarization
Compactness ideological
Party-System Extremism ideological
Dispersion ideological
Polarization Index ideological
Range ideological
SD ideological
Variance ideological

Use cases

Title Authors
Challenges to established parties Abedi (2002)
Party System Compactness Alvarez and Nagler (2004)
The Activists Who Divide Us Amitai (2023)
The Spatial Structure of Party Competition Andrews and Money (2009)
Elite polarisation and voting turnout in Latin America Béjar et al. (2020)
Political polarisation and environmental attitudes Birch (2020)
The impact of party polarisation and postmaterialism on voter turnout Crepaz (1990)
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe Borbáth et al. (2023)
Modeling ideological polarisation in democratic party systems Dalton (2021)
The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems Dalton (2008)
Missing Links in Party-System Polarisation Curini and Hino (2012)
Party System Polarisation and Electoral Behavior Dassonneville and Çakır (2021)
Party-System Extremism in Majoritarian and Proportional Electoral Systems Dow (2011)
Parties Policy Programmes and the Dog that Didnt Bark Ezrow (2008)
Does voter polarisation induce party extremism? Dreyer and Bauer (2019)
The Variance Matters Ezrow (2007)
Centre Parties Hazan (1997)
The mobilising effect of political choice Hobolt and Hoerner (2019)
Party Polarisation and Mass Partisanship Lupu (2015)
Reflections Mair and Castles (1997)
Electoral Rule Disproportionality and Platform Polarisation Matakos et al. (2016)
Left-Right Polarisation In National Party Systems Sigelman and Yough (1978)
Party Systems and Government Stability Taylor and Herman (1971)
Affective polarisation in multiparty systems Wagner (2021)
Meaningful choices, political supply, and institutional effectiveness Wessels and Schmitt (2008)