论文标题
气候政治的两极分化是由党派分类导致的：芬兰Twittersphere的证据
Polarization of Climate Politics Results from Partisan Sorting: Evidence from Finnish Twittersphere
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论文摘要
先前的研究表明，公众对气候政治的看法沿党派界线。但是，他们打开了一个问题，即气候政治和其他政治上显着的问题是否表现出发行一致性的趋势，政治两极分化文献将其视为两极分化最有害的方面之一。使用Twitter平台的网络方法和社交媒体数据，我们在2019年芬兰选举期间将公众舆论对气候政治和其他十个政治上的主题进行了两极分化，这是公共论坛中对方群体的出现。我们发现，尽管与其他主题相比，气候政治并不是特别两极分化，但它在欧洲政治的普遍主义社区政治方面的党派分类和发行一致性，这是在右翼民粹主义增长之后出现的。值得注意的是，气候政治始终与移民问题保持一致，时间趋势表明这种现象可能会持续存在。
Prior research shows that public opinion on climate politics sorts along partisan lines. However, they leave open the question of whether climate politics and other politically salient issues exhibit tendencies for issue alignment, which the political polarization literature identifies as among the most deleterious aspects of polarization. Using a network approach and social media data from the Twitter platform, we study polarization of public opinion toward climate politics and ten other politically salient topics during the 2019 Finnish elections as the emergence of opposing groups in a public forum. We find that while climate politics is not particularly polarized compared to the other topics, it is subject to partisan sorting and issue alignment within the universalist-communitarian dimension of European politics that arose following the growth of right-wing populism. Notably, climate politics is consistently aligned with the immigration issue, and temporal trends indicate that this phenomenon will likely persist.
