Emily Carty

University of Salamanca · Área de Ciencia Política y de la Administración

The emergence of new challenger parties calls for a reassessment of the party-model of opinion formation by examining different sources of cues across types of voters and the conditions that make cueing more effective. Although new challenger parties may lack sufficient time to develop identification with groups and distinctive party reputations, t...

Building upon previous literature on political behavior, contentious social movements, and political communication, this paper aims to identify which experiences of political participation are associated with illegal protest. Relying on a two-wave panel dataset from the US, we first provide an overview of the main types of political participatory b...

What makes populist leaders, responsible for many episodes of democratic backsliding, especially appealing to a significant part of the electorate? In the following pages we argue that the effect of perceptions regarding leaders’ ‘warmth’ causes them to be perceived as having good intentions toward and even being part of ‘the people,’ resulting in...

The last Argentine elections of 2021 seem to have been dominated by the conflict between two blocs or alliances: Frente de Todos (FdT) and Juntos por el Cambio (JxC). This conflict has taken shape in public opinion during the last years, displaying a polarization phenomenon that has been called “la grieta”, an expression used to describe the divisi...

The TRI-POL project explores the triangle of interactive relationships between affective and ideological polarisation, political distrust, and the politics of party competition. In this project there are two complementary groups of datasets with individual-level survey data and digital trace data collected in five countries: Argentina, Chile, Italy...

Prior research underscores the utility of political persuasion to sustain more engaged democracies and as a vital element in political campaigning processes. When citizens display increased openness to political attitude change, societies benefit as diverse viewpoints thrive, and less dissonant public spheres may be fostered. This contrasts with to...

This article seeks to gain a deeper understanding on the relationship between polarisation and political trust in multiparty systems by examining the effect of different indicators of affective and ideological polarisation on the withinindividual variation of political trust over time. Using unique data collected from two separate online survey pan...

In a region where personalistic politics and charismatic leaders have long been a characteristic of the political landscape, there has been little research exploring the relationship between individuals’ identification with leaders and its relationship with political participation. Using original survey data from Argentina in 2016, the findings fro...

The E-DEM dataset provides information on the evolution of political and affective polarisation and electoral behaviour (among many other variables) in the aftermath of the political crisis that shook the Spanish party system starting in 2014. The dataset is formed by a four-wave online panel survey of the Spanish voting age population between late...

Neopatrimonial exercise of power, combining ruler appropriation of resources with ruler discretionality in the use of state power, remains present to varying degrees in contemporary Latin America. Building on an extensive literature, this article provides a delimited conceptualization and measurement of neopatrimonialism for 18 countries in the reg...