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T1 Affective Polarization and Consensus Building Among Parliamentary Elites
A1 Sánchez Ferrer, Leonardo
A1 Torcal, Mariano
K1 Affective polarization
K1 Consensus
K1 Parliament
K1 MPs
K1 Spain
K1 Política
K1 Political science
K1 España-Política y gobierno
K1 Spain-Politics and government
AB 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.
PB Sage publications
SN 0002-7642
YR 2024
FD 2024-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10007
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10007
LA eng
NO 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
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 30-ene-2025