Gatto, Malu AC;
Leal, João Gabriel;
Thomé, Débora;
(2025)
What explains election-driven family conflicts?
Research & Politics
, 12
(1)
10.1177/20531680251319815.
(In press).
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Abstract
As affective polarisation rises worldwide, so do concerns about how political disagreements affect social relationships, including families – a core building block of societies. The impact of political division on families has been a topic of interest for media outlets, but scholarship remains scarce. To contribute to this emerging debate, we ask: What factors increase the risk of election-driven family conflicts? Employing data from a national survey in Brazil, a highly polarised context, we find that the prevalence of election-driven family conflicts is low, affecting roughly only 3.5% of respondents. As our theory-development exercise reveals, even if not widely spread, election-driven family conflicts disproportionately affect one group: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents. Our study adds to a growing scholarship on the detrimental impacts of polarised elections on the LGBTQI+ community – and reinforces the need for further research to investigate the heterogeneous effects of emerging political dynamics on marginalised groups.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | What explains election-driven family conflicts? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/20531680251319815 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680251319815 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Affective polarisation, electoral disagreement, political socialisation, family, LGBT+, Brazil |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of the Americas |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204914 |
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