[Poscgrad] Graduate Student event - research presentation

[Adam Hobbs]

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 8:58 AM Adam Hobbs <ahobb005 at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I hope everyone had a great three day weekend!
>
> GSA is hosting Wataru Onishi at Adam's house to present his research paper
> "Do Warm Party Relations Reduce Affective Polarization in the Real World?
> Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Britain." Please join and help him
> improve his paper by providing feedback.* You can read the abstract for
> this research below.*
>
> The event will be *Friday, February 24th *at *6PM*. The presentation will
> begin at 6:30PM and will last roughly one hour with Q&A. The address is:
> 5747 Old Ranch Road; Riverside, CA 92504. There will be food and drinks
> (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) for all to enjoy. If you want to bring
> something to contribute, that is more than welcome. After the presentation,
> we will hangout and play games.
>
> *Abstract:*
>
> *Do warm group relations mitigate affective polarization in the real
> world? Addressing this question affords us with a crucial resolution to the
> increasing concern regarding affective polarization.  While some existing
> scholars posit the plausibility of this hypothesis, little is known about
> the actual amelioration of affective polarization in the real world as a
> result of warm inter-group relations. I address this question by focusing
> on the case of the murder of a British MP, Jo Cox, where political elites
> from the two largest political camps, the Conservative and Labour parties,
> expressed profound condolences together. I argue that the warm
> relationships between the two parties subsequent to the murder promoted a
> significant decline in affective polarization among supporters of these
> parties. Using a quasi-experimental design, I find supportive evidence for
> my argument. Specifically, Conservative supporters exhibit increased
> favorability toward the Labour party and its leader after the murder in
> comparison to the improvement of out-party sentiment among Labour
> supporters. In contrast, I fail to find robust evidence of the effects of
> warm interactions on Conservative and its leader favorability among Labour
> supporters. This paper propounds a potential remedy to the pervasive
> inter-party hostility we currently face.*
>
> Please email us if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!
>
> --
> *The GSA Team*
>
>

-- 
Adam LeGrand Hobbs, M.A.
*University of California, Riverside*
*Department of Political Science*
adam.hobbs at email.ucr.edu
https://profiles.ucr.edu/adam.hobbs
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