Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings
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| author | Goldin, Gili Rabinovich, Ella Wintner, Shuly |
| author_facet | Goldin, Gili Rabinovich, Ella Wintner, Shuly |
| contents | Recent years have seen an increase in polarized discourse worldwide, on various platforms. We propose a novel method for quantifying polarization, based on the emotional style of the discourse rather than on differences in ideological stands. Using measures of Valence, Arousal and Dominance, we detect signals of emotional discourse and use them to operationalize the concept of affective polarization. Applying this method to a recently released corpus of proceedings of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament (in Hebrew), we find that the emotional style of members of government differs from that of opposition members; and that the level of affective polarization, as reflected by this style, is significantly increasing with time. |
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| spellingShingle | Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings Goldin, Gili Rabinovich, Ella Wintner, Shuly Computation and Language Recent years have seen an increase in polarized discourse worldwide, on various platforms. We propose a novel method for quantifying polarization, based on the emotional style of the discourse rather than on differences in ideological stands. Using measures of Valence, Arousal and Dominance, we detect signals of emotional discourse and use them to operationalize the concept of affective polarization. Applying this method to a recently released corpus of proceedings of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament (in Hebrew), we find that the emotional style of members of government differs from that of opposition members; and that the level of affective polarization, as reflected by this style, is significantly increasing with time. |
| title | Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05231 |