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Negative Party Identifications as Out-Group Perceptions in Multi-Party Systems How Do They Affect Vote Choice?
Sabrina Jasmin Mayersubject
PoliticsOperationalizationEmpirical researchConceptualizationPolitical sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectSelf-categorization theoryIdeologySocial identity theoryIngroups and outgroupsSocial psychologymedia_commondescription
Although negative party identification is part of the original party identification concept by Campbell et al., it has been rarely analyzed in empirical studies. Further, the few existing studies lack a coherent conceptualization of negative partisanship, and focus in their analyses almost exclusively on negative party evaluations. This paper clearly distinguishes between negative party identification and evaluation, conceptualizing both concepts coherently within the social identity framework. In addition, new insights are presented by conceptualizing and operationalizing negative party identifications as out-group perceptions of political parties (based on new German data from 2013). The results indicate that negative party identifications affect votes significantly, but only in West Germany, between parties of different ideological camps.
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2015-01-01 | SSRN Electronic Journal |