Ideological extremism, perceived party system polarization, and support for democracy

Party Politics, Political Polarization and the Future of Ethiopian Democracy

Attitude Extremity and Party Identification Strength on Perceived Polarization

Moderation of an ideological party

It is a common fear in many countries that ideological parties will come to power through elections but will implement extreme policies. Many countries cope with this problem by overriding the election results when such parties are elected. We demonstrate that the alternative approach of containing these parties within the democratic system is more effective. We show that, as the probability of...

A Kantian System? Democracy and Third-Party Conflict Resolution

A previous version of this article was presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia. I would like to thank Paul Hensel for generously sharing his ICOW data on territorial claims for this project. I am also grateful to Tom Carsey, Paul Hensel, Ashley Leeds, Doug Lemke, Will Moore, Bill Reed, Dan Reiter, Bruce Russett, Alastair Smith, and Ri...

Predicting User's Political Party Using Ideological Stances

Predicting users political party in social media has important impacts on many real world applications such as targeted advertising, recommendation and personalization. Several political research studies on it indicate that political parties’ ideological beliefs on sociopolitical issues may influence the users political leaning. In our work, we exploit users’ ideological stances on controversia...