Expressive Politics as (Costly) Norm Following
Autor: | Erik O. Kimbrough, Eline A. de Rooij, Mark Pickup |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
Sociology and Political Science Salience (language) media_common.quotation_subject Compromise 05 social sciences Population Wage 050109 social psychology 16. Peace & justice 0506 political science Identity (mathematics) Politics 050602 political science & public administration 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Norm (social) Social identity theory education Social psychology media_common |
Zdroj: | Political Behavior. 44:1611-1631 |
ISSN: | 1573-6687 0190-9320 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11109-020-09667-6 |
Popis: | When deciding whether to support a political candidate, policy or cause, individuals are observed to prioritize the expression of their political identities. They even knowingly incur personal costs (a lower wage, strained family relations) to do so. We argue that viewing political identities as social identities that impart norms on who or what one ought to support can help explain such costly political expression. Through population-based survey experiments, we show that individuals are aware of the norms attached to their political identities; will knowingly choose norm-compliance at personal cost; and that this costly political identity expression varies with norm salience and strength. Our results imply that as political identities strengthen, group norm compliance will increase, even at a cost, rendering compromise between political groups less likely. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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