Alessandro Nai

Unreliable and Invalid? Not So Fast: A Multistudy Empirical Assessment of the ‘Directional’ Measure of Negative Campaigning

Alessandro Nai, Jürgen Maier, Michaela Maier

The ‘directional’ definition of negative campaigning (i.e. when candidates leverage critiques against their political opponents) has been criticized for lacking reliability and validity. Does this critical assessment resist scrutiny? We propose, via nine different original studies, a full-scale reassessment of this critical …

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You must like me for me. New experimental evidence on the interplay between musical preferences and ideological attitudes

Alessandro Nai, Chiara Vargiu, Diego Garzia

Ideological cues can shape pop culture preferences – for instance, being told that a given artist is a liberal should normally increase likeability towards them amongst liberals. In light of the increasing political advocacy role of entertainers across the globe, it is …

You must like me for me. New experimental evidence on the interplay between musical preferences and ideological attitudes

Alessandro Nai, Chiara Vargiu, Diego Garzia

Ideological cues can shape pop culture preferences – for instance, being told that a given artist is a liberal should normally increase likeability towards them amongst liberals. In light of the increasing political advocacy role of entertainers across the globe, it is …

You must like me for me. New experimental evidence on the interplay between musical preferences and ideological attitudes

Alessandro Nai, Chiara Vargiu, Diego Garzia

Ideological cues can shape pop culture preferences – for instance, being told that a given artist is a liberal should normally increase likeability towards them amongs. In light of the increasing political advocacy role of entertainers across the globe, it is however …

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Partisan Differences in Support for Political Violence: Results from a Natural Experiment in the United States

Chiara Vargiu, Alessandro Nai

Abstract The polarized reaction to the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in December 2024 underscored the potential of ideologically framed acts of violence to undermine societal cohesion and challenge democratic norms. While many condemned the killing as an unjustifiable attack on a …

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Nexit, Frexit or Grexit? A Comparison of Party and Citizen Positions Towards European Union Exit Referendums

Andreas C. Goldberg, Alessandro Nai

The fracture between citizens and elites on European integration remains understudied, most notably when it comes to specific issues. One of these issues, particularly salient in the aftermath of Brexit, is holding further European Union exit referendums across the Union. While regularly …

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Unique Personalities in the Limelight? A Cross-National Analysis of Politicians’ Personality and Media Visibility during Elections

Alon Zoizner, Alessandro Nai, Jürgen Maier

News visibility is central to political success, shaping how citizens evaluate political actors. While previous research emphasizes institutional power as the main driver of media coverage, less is known about how elite personalities influence visibility across countries. This study combines personality profiles …

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Measuring Escalating Hostility and Democratic Backsliding:Proof of Concept for the Political Hostility Scale (PHOS-16)

Jérémy Dodeigne, Chiara Vargiu, Alessandro Nai

Hostile political rhetoric has become increasingly prominent in modern democracies, as elite polarization has moved well beyond policy disagreement to encompass inflammatory language, nasty attacks, and even party leaders vocalizing prejudicing measures against rival groups.This shift towards polarizing rhetoric coincides with episodes …

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A populist incitement? Populism, attack rhetoric, and support for political violence

Alessandro Nai, Elizabeth L. Young, Vlastimil Havlík, Alena Kluknavská

Populists are known for their aggressive and uncompromising political style, and for rewarding a more combative behavior in their followers. Yet, virtually no evidence exists that aggressive populist rhetoric has an inciting effect among their followers towards greater support for political violence …

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Replication Data for "Partisan Differences in Support for Political Violence: Results from a Natural Experiment in the United States"

Chiara Vargiu, Alessandro Nai

The polarized reaction to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO in December 2024 underscored the potential of ideologically framed acts of violence to undermine societal cohesion and challenge democratic norms. While many condemned the killing as an unjustifiable attack on a private citizen, …

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Peer-reviewing, the multi-edged sword: Distributions of power and burden among marginalized researchers

Julie Reiter, Helena Hartmann, Simon Thomas van Baal, William L. Allen et autres

Inward-looking attitudes and support for foreign expressions of ethno-traditionalism:Experimental evidence

Elizabeth Young, Alessandro Nai, Linda Bos

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