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When partisanship forms our identity


When partisanship forms our identity - Niskanen Center

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

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

“From our perspective, the difference in the magnitude of the partisan ... “Issues and Inheritance in the Formation of Party. Identification.” American ...

Political Partisanship as a Social Identity

In particular, social identity theory has been used to develop an expressive model of partisanship, which stands in contrast to an instrumental ...

Partisanship as Social Identity - Fluent Knowledge

“Your political identity doesn't have to be exactly the same as your religious identity or your occupational identity or the hobbies you have. But in a ...

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

The idea that political partisanship could be a form of identity may seem counterintuitive. The commonsense understanding of parties is as ...

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 ...

Examining how U.S. politics became intertwined with personal identity

What we're seeing today is, the divide is much more about our feelings about each other. We are angry at one another. Democrats and Republicans ...

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

Many scholars blame partisan polarization for collapsing politics into social life. But these diagnoses lack any sophisticated theoretical basis ...

partisanship as social identity: using methods of conflict

group, further evidence for viewing partisanship as a form of social identity. ... The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party. Composition and ...

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

Partisans who view their affiliation as a social identity are more likely to conform to their co-partisan peers—a dynamic largely absent with ...

Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity

The norms of racial, re- ligious, and cultural respect have deteriorated. Partisan battles have helped organize Americans' distrust for “the other” in ...

The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief

beliefs in favor of party loyalty [5]. Although our tribal motives and cognitive structures have existed for millennia, increases in partisanship, the behavior ...

Partisan identities are multi-dimensional: Negative and Expressive ...

Some partisans have a strong partisan identity, while for others, partisan identity is not a major part of how they define themselves. Stated ...

How Identity, Not Issues, Explains the Partisan Divide

This rejection based on group membership is called affective polarization, meaning that our feelings (affect) are different towards members of ...

The dual nature of partisan prejudice: Morality and identity in a ...

These partisan identities will then appear to predict their hostility toward rival party members, but this hostility is ultimately a reflection ...

From Partisanship to Preference: How Identity Shapes Dependence ...

By design, beliefs about the actions of the delegate cannot explain the observed treatment effect. Our finding suggests that contrasting identities impede the ...

David Brooks Is Wrong about Partisanship and Identity

Last week my colleague Thomas Edsall quoted a political scientist, Alex Theodoridis, who noted this phenomenon: “Partisanship for many Americans ...

Partisan Identity and Political Decision Making

In the political realm, race, religion, and ethnicity, as well as ideology and partisanship, represent some of the most consequential identities ...

Opinion The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief

We propose an identity-based model of belief for understanding the influence of partisanship on these cognitive processes. This framework helps to explain why ...

Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan ... - Sage Journals

Consistent with the political identity hypothesis, Democrats and Republicans were both more likely to believe news about the value-upholding behavior of their ...