Polarization of climate politics results from partisan sorting: Evidence from Finnish Twittersphere

Prior research shows that public opinion on climate politics sorts along partisan lines. However, they leave open the question of whether and other politically salient issues exhibit tendencies for issue alignment, which political polarization literature identifies as among most deleterious aspects polarization. Using a network approach social media data from Twitter platform, we study toward ten topics during 2019 Finnish elections emergence opposing groups in forum. We find while is not particularly polarized compared to topics, it subject sorting alignment within universalist-communitarian dimension European arose following growth right-wing populism. Notably, consistently aligned with immigration issue, temporal trends indicate this phenomenon will likely persist.