Territorial identity and affective polarization in Spain: an analysis proposal
Keywords
- identidad territorial,
- identidad social,
- polarización afectiva,
- España
- territorial identity,
- social identity,
- affective polarization,
- Spain
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Abstract
This paper is based on Lilliana Mason’s thesis on the alignment of social identities and its effects on affective polarization. For the Spanish case, due to the relevance that the territorial conflict has had in the country, they seek to establish relations between territorial identity and affective polarization, for which the degree of connection between this social identity and two other identities must be observed, the ideological and the partisanship. The results indicate a notable degree of identity overlap: the two extreme categories of territorial identity also have the most polarized means of ideological self-placement according to an expected relationship between Spanishism-right and regionalism-left. Statistically significant relationships were also found between feelings regarding the Popular Party, Vox and Ciudadanos and the scale of territorial identity. The parties of the right arouse feelings of intense rejection in those with essentially autonomous territorial identities. All this allows us to speak of territorial identity as a relevant factor of affective polarization in Spain.
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