The Path to the Dark Side: Investigating Determinants of Political Violence and Negative Partisanship Through Open-Ended Responses

• In Event: Justifying Political Violence and Norm-Breaking

Brief Overview

This paper uses text analysis to differentiate political motivators within both positive and negative partisanship to identify motivational drivers of support for political violence.

Authors

• Wil Daniel Bunch, University of Georgia

• Sangdo Lee, University of Georgia