Kamil Bernaerts
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamil Bernaerts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamil |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernaerts |
| SIGNATURE | BERNAERTS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3380-6639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Affect or Emotions? Disaggregating Affective Polarisation to Explain Support for Liberal Democracy in Belgium and the United Kingdom
While democratic support remains robust, support for liberal-democratic institutions has markedly declined across established democracies. Affective polarisation features prominently in theoretical accounts of this erosion, yet empirical investigations yield contradictory findings. This study posits that such inconsistencies stem from conceptual and measurement limitations in conventional operationalisations of affective polarisation. Drawing on …
Fight or unite? Exploring the link between consensus institutions, polarization, and political violence in 113 democracies over time (1900–2023)
Political violence poses an alarming threat to contemporary democracies and is often attributed to rising polarization. This paper investigates how democratic institutions moderate the relationship between identity-based polarization and violence, hypothesizing that this relationship depends upon a country’s institutional structure. Studying 113 democracies over time (1900−2023), we find that while identity-based polarization is associated with p…
Deliberation and polarization
In recent years, deliberative democracy has drawn attention as a potential way of fighting polarization. Allowing citizens to exchange arguments and viewpoints on political issues in group, can have strong conflict-mitigating effects: it can foster opinion changes (thereby overcoming idea-based polarization), and improve relations between diametrically opposed groups (thereby tackling affective forms of polarization, such as affective polarizatio…
Institutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies
It is often claimed that we are living in an age of increasing polarization. Political views, opinions, and worldviews become increasingly irreconcilable (idea-based polarization), while at the same time society appears to be getting fractured in antagonistic, opposing camps (identity-based polarization). However, a closer look at international datasets reveals that these forms of polarization do not affect all democracies to the same extent. Lev…
Institutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies
It is often claimed that we are living in an age of increasing polarization. Political views, opinions, and worldviews become increasingly irreconcilable (idea-based polarization), while at the same time society appears to be getting fractured in antagonistic, opposing camps (identity-based polarization). However, a closer look at international datasets reveals that these forms of polarization do not affect all democracies to the same extent. Lev…
Deliberation and polarization
In recent years, deliberative democracy has drawn attention as a potential way of fighting polarization. Allowing citizens to exchange arguments and viewpoints on political issues in group, can have strong conflict-mitigating effects: it can foster opinion changes (thereby overcoming idea-based polarization), and improve relations between diametrically opposed groups (thereby tackling affective forms of polarization, such as affective polarizatio…
Institutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies
It is often claimed that we are living in an age of increasing polarization. Political views, opinions, and worldviews become increasingly irreconcilable (idea-based polarization), while at the same time society appears to be getting fractured in antagonistic, opposing camps (identity-based polarization). However, a closer look at international datasets reveals that these forms of polarization do not affect all democracies to the same extent. Lev…
Fight or unite? Exploring the link between consensus institutions, polarization, and political violence in 113 democracies over time (1900–2023)
Political violence poses an alarming threat to contemporary democracies and is often attributed to rising polarization. This paper investigates how democratic institutions moderate the relationship between identity-based polarization and violence, hypothesizing that this relationship depends upon a country’s institutional structure. Studying 113 democracies over time (1900−2023), we find that while identity-based polarization is associated with p…
Affect or Emotions? Disaggregating Affective Polarisation to Explain Support for Liberal Democracy in Belgium and the United Kingdom
While democratic support remains robust, support for liberal-democratic institutions has markedly declined across established democracies. Affective polarisation features prominently in theoretical accounts of this erosion, yet empirical investigations yield contradictory findings. This study posits that such inconsistencies stem from conceptual and measurement limitations in conventional operationalisations of affective polarisation. Drawing on …
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Polarization (electrochemistry (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)