TY - T1 - Polarization of climate politics results from partisan sorting : Evidence from Finnish Twittersphere SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/335438 T3 - A1 - Chen, Ted Hsuan Yun; Salloum, Ali; Gronow, Antti; Ylä-Anttila, Tuomas; Kivelä, Mikko A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Prior research shows that public opinion on climate politics sorts along partisan lines. However, they leave open the question of whether climate politics and other politically salient issues exhibit tendencies for issue alignment, which the political polarization literature identifies as among the most deleterious aspects of polarization. Using a network approach and social media data from the Twitter platform, we study polarization of public opinion toward climate politics and ten other politi... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Climate politics; Issue alignment; Partisan sorting; Political polarization; Social networks; 5171 Political Science N1 - PP - ER -