Forms of polarization

Ideological Polarization

Measures

Measure Level
Compactness elite
Party-System Extremism elite
Dispersion elite
Polarisation Index elite, mass
Range elite
SD elite, mass
Variance elite

Use cases

Publication that use this measure:

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)
Do Voters Polarize When Radical Parties Enter Parliament? Bischof and Wagner (2019)
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 Didn’t 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)
On the relationship between party polarisation and citizen polarisation Moral and Best (2023)
Left-Right Polarisation In National Party Systems Sigelman and Yough (1978)
Party Systems and Government Stability Taylor and Herman (1971)
Meaningful choices, political supply, and institutional effectiveness Wessels and Schmitt (2008)