How Does the "Us" versus "Them" Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F25%3A00144211" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/25:00144211 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08883254231215513" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08883254231215513</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08883254231215513" target="_blank" >10.1177/08883254231215513</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Does the "Us" versus "Them" Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale
Original language description
This article introduces and validates a Political Antagonism Scale (PAS) aimed at capturing politically motivated antagonism among people in survey research. Recent trends indicate a rise in politically motivated polarization across various countries. This polarization often transcends mere ideological distance, fostering an identity-based "Us" versus "Them" political perspective. Consequently, this transforms the traditional agonistic political competition into a deeply adversarial antagonistic relationship, wherein political counterparts are viewed as enemies. Such conflict dynamics may have serious consequences for democratic politics and should be examined by scholars of political polarization across different political contexts and at different time points. However, a comprehensive survey tool addressing this form of polarization has been lacking. The PAS is designed to capture the complex nature of political antagonism and target individual antagonization towards their political outgroups on the level of social groups, political elites, the media, and everyday life. In addition, we present a regression model identifying potential sources of political antagonism. Our findings highlight the significant association between political antagonization and a prevailing sense of ontological insecurity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-24724S" target="_blank" >GA19-24724S: Political polarization in the Czech Republic: The case of multi-party system</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
1533-8371
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
100-120
UT code for WoS article
001142381800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85182203781