Sep 10, 2021 · We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her economic or cultural group. Second, the voter slants her beliefs toward the stereotype of the group she identifies with. We obtain three implications.

Sep 10, 2021 · We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her...

In Canada and Spain, identity politics has been used to describe separatist movements; in Africa, Asia, and eastern Europe, it has described violent nationalist and ethnic conflicts.

Jul 7, 2023 · Identity – including race, sexual orientation, gender – have become lightning rod subjects of hundreds of bills in state legislatures across the country as Americans across the political spectrum seek to define the nation's values.

Jan 30, 2025 · identity politics, political or social activity by or on behalf of a racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, or other group, usually undertaken with the goal of rectifying injustices suffered by group members because of differences or conflicts between their particular identity (or misconceptions of their particular identity) and the ...

Centrally, I identify six specific causal mechanisms through which identities encourage violence by providing: (i) mobiliz-ing co-ordinates, (ii) targeting categories, (iii) virtue-systems, (iv) obligation hier-archies, (v) victimhood, and (vi) group hatred.

Jul 16, 2002 · The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups.

Whether in populist form, or in more familiar forms of social movements and national conflicts, the politics of identity disguises intense contest and change behind its strong and simple identity claims and its overt solidarity.

Feb 1, 2015 · This article explains the failings of the familiar narrative about identity, by demonstrating its fundamentally ideological nature and its nuanced causal role in political violence.

Jan 30, 2024 · The study examines how the identity dimension affects current conflicts and poses a number of queries regarding the significance of this dimension and its ability to explain these conflicts.