Straying from the Flock? A Look at How Americans’ Gender and Religious Identities Cross-Pressure Partisanship
| Autor: | Erin C. Cassese |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Polarization (politics) 050109 social psychology Gender studies 0506 political science Loyalty 050602 political science & public administration 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Gender gap Sociology Flock media_common |
| Zdroj: | Political Research Quarterly. 73:169-183 |
| ISSN: | 1938-274X 1065-9129 |
| Popis: | White evangelicals–both men and women–are a mainstay of the Republican Party. What accounts for their ongoing loyalty, particularly when Republican candidates and leaders fail to embody closely held moral standards around sexual monogamy and propriety, as Donald Trump did in 2016? To answer this question, I draw on research about social sorting and polarization, as well as gender and religion gaps in public opinion, to theorize about the nature of the cross-pressures partisans may experience as a result of the religious and gender identifications they hold. Using data from the 2016 American National Election Study, I evaluate whether cross-cutting identities have a moderating effect on partisans’ thinking about gender issues, their evaluations of the presidential candidates, and their relationship to the parties. I find only modest evidence that gender and evangelical identification impact political thinking among white Republicans, including their reactions to the Access Hollywood tape. Other groups, however, experienced more significant cross-pressures in 2016. Both evangelical Democrats and secular Republicans reported less polarized affective reactions to the presidential candidates and the parties. The results highlight the contingent role that gender and religious identities play in the United States’ highly polarized political climate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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