{"id":11956,"date":"2026-08-19T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuacwebzine.snu.ac.kr\/?p=11956"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:08:27","slug":"partisan-polarization-populist-attitudes-and-anti-democratic-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuacwebzine.snu.ac.kr\/?p=11956","title":{"rendered":"Partisan polarization, populist attitudes, and anti-democratic behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" >[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<b>Partisan polarization, populist attitudes, and anti-democratic behaviors<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>\uc800\uc790: \uac15\uba85\uc138(\uc544\uc2dc\uc544\uc5f0\uad6c\uc18c), \uae40\uc885\ucca0(\uc544\uc2dc\uc544\uc5f0\uad6c\uc18c)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Frontiers in Political Science<\/i>, vol. 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p><b>2024<\/b><b>\ub144 \ube44\uc0c1\uacc4\uc5c4\uacfc \ub300\ud1b5\ub839 \ud0c4\ud575 \uc815\uad6d\uc5d0\uc11c \ud55c\uad6d \uc720\uad8c\uc790\uc758 \ubc18\ubbfc\uc8fc\uc801 \uc218\ub2e8 \uc815\ub2f9\ud654\uc5d0 \uc601\ud5a5\uc744 \ubbf8\uce5c \uc694\uc778\uc740 \ubb34\uc5c7\uc778\uac00<\/b><b>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"TitleInline\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law, triggering a four-month constitutional crisis that culminated in his impeachment by the Constitutional Court. While martial law was the triggering event, the principal axis of partisan conflict that crystallized in its aftermath was support for or opposition to presidential impeachment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TitleInline\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Methods:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Using the Korean Voter Panel Survey Wave 1 (February 25\u201328, 2025; N = 1,636), this study tests seven hypotheses about the individual-level predictors of anti-democratic justification\u2014the willingness to justify undemocratic means to pursue political goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TitleInline\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We find that (1) rule of law commitment is the strongest protective predictor; (2) affective polarization (emotional hostility toward those holding the opposing impeachment position) substantially increases justification; (3) partisans of both major parties score higher than independents, but the effect of affective polarization is asymmetric\u2014stronger among People Power Party supporters than among Democratic Party supporters; and (4) populist attitudes operate in two theoretically distinct ways, functioning both as a direct predictor and as a moderator that amplifies the effect of affective polarization while attenuating the protective effect of rule of law commitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TitleInline\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Discussion:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Importantly, we find limited attitude polarization\u2014both camps share a baseline normative rejection of anti-democratic means\u2014while affective polarization robustly predicts individual-level variation. 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