Partisanship as a Social Identity

Political Partisanship as a Social Identity

The greater levels of political engagement observed among partisans are motivated by their defense of the party. The origins of partisanship in ...

Partisanship as Social Identity; Implications for the Study of Party ...

Using data from the. American National Election Study, as well as implicit attitude tests, we argue that. Americans' partisan identity has become highly salient ...

Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization

We provide evidence that partisanship functions as a social identity, but that the salience of partisan identity—in and of itself—does not ...

Partisanship as a social identity: Implications for polarization.

The claim that partisanship has developed into a social identity is one of the dominant explanations for the current rising levels of affective polarization ...

When partisanship forms our identity - Niskanen Center

We seem to have become partisan animals, with Republican or Democratic identification now tied to all other social identities and political ...

Partisan Conformity, Social Identity, and the Formation of Policy ...

In this article, we test the impact of messages signaling political parties' issue stances on citizens' own professed policy preferences.

How Our Social Group Attachments Strengthen Partisanship

“Social sorting” is a concept used by Mason (2016) to explain the process by which individuals' social identities grow increasingly aligned with a partisan ...

Social Identity Theory and Party Identification - jstor

Social identity is a fundamental aspect of partisanship, which, when measured, can lead to superior prediction and understanding of related political attitudes ...

Beyond disdain: Measurement and consequences of negative ...

Partisanship has been a central concept to the study of political behaviour (Dalton, 2016), consistently predicting several behavioural outcomes and even ...

What Kind of Identity is Partisan Identity? “Social” versus “Political ...

Political partisan identity rejects partisanship as expression of authentic private experience deserving of particular recognition, based on a ...

Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization

Partisanship as a stronger social identity increases negative affect toward the rival party and positive affect toward one's own party.

Left-Right Social Identity and the Polarization of Political Tolerance

We examine how social identity attachments to left–right groups in Israel influence Jewish Israelis' political intolerance of disliked domestic groups.

Partisanship as Social Identity: Implications for the Study of Party ...

Partisanship as Social Identity: Implications for the Study of Party Polarization. 2018. Author(s) Shanto Iyengar Krupenkin, Masha.

Understanding Party Identification: A Social Identity Approach - jstor

study, a partisan social identity scale was used to reinterpret perceptual features of partisanship through the lens of social identity theory. The social ...

Veteran social identity, partisanship, and political behavior

I find that veterans have a stronger sense of identity as a veteran, measured in terms of self-identification as both a veteran and a feeling of closeness to ...

Measuring Partisanship as a Social Identity in Multi-Party Systems

We show that an eight-item partisan identity scale provides greater information about partisan intensity than a standard single-item and has the same ...

Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization

The claim that partisanship has developed into a social identity is one of the dominant explanations for the current rising levels of affective polarization ...

Measuring Partisanship as a Social Identity in Multi-Party Systems

We assess the nature of partisanship in the European context, examining the measurement properties and predictive validity of a multi-item partisan identity ...

Social Identity of Partisanship | FSU Digital Repository

I show that party social identity, a direct measure of group identity, explains variation in candidate preferences in political primaries where the standard ...

partisanship as social identity: using methods of conflict

Republicans are “more reliant than Democrats on their social identities for constructing strong partisan attachments” (Mason & Wronski, 2018, p. 274) making the ...