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Replication Data for: Identity as Dependent Variable: How Americans Shift Their Identities to Align With Their Politics

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Title Replication Data for: Identity as Dependent Variable: How Americans Shift Their Identities to Align With Their Politics
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Y82RW8
 
Creator Egan, Patrick J
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Political science generally treats identities such as ethnicity, religion, and sexuality as "unmoved movers" in the chain of causality. I hypothesize that the growing salience of partisanship and ideology as social identities in the U.S., combined with the increasing demographic distinctiveness of the nation's two political coalitions, is leading some Americans to engage in a self-categorization and depersonalization process in which they shift their identities toward the demographic prototypes of their political groups. Analyses of a representative panel dataset that tracks identities and political affiliations over a four-year span confirm that small but significant shares of Americans engage in identity switching regarding ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and class that is predicted by partisanship and ideology in their pasts, bringing their identities into alignment with their politics. These findings enrich and complicate our understanding of the relationship between identity and politics and suggest caution in treating identities as unchanging phenomena.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Identity
Race
Ethnicity
Sexual orientation
Religion
Social classes
Partisanship
Ideology
 
Contributor Egan, Patrick J
 
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