Partisanship differs from ascribed identities since it is voluntary and party-dependent.

Evidence

Unlike categorizations such as gender or ethnicity, partisanship is a social identity that is self-chosen, and that relies on an organization who itself acts in the political sphere, namely the party. We thus wanted to account for this by including two more domains that also emerged from the interviews: namely the importance of the general values of a party (opposition to worldviews) and an evaluative dimension, which takes into account longstanding trends. — Sabrina J. Mayer and Luana Russo, What one is not, 53

Categorization

• DEFINE: Nice crisp statement of why partisanship-as-identity is sui generis versus ethnicity/gender — the voluntary, organizational character.
• XREF: connects to: Negative identification against radical-right parties can raise democratic satisfaction. — Sabrina J. Mayer and Luana Russo, What one is not: a new scale to measure…, 96; Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given; Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2696

Related

• Healthy partisanship requires the self-discipline to admit being only a part (similarity 0.83)
• Partisan identity scales derive from a general psychological group-identification measure (similarity 0.82)
• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (similarity 0.81)
• Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait (similarity 0.81)
• White partisans differ sharply on identity strength but barely on partisan intensity (similarity 0.80)
• Whether negational party identity is ideologically anchored remains untested (similarity 0.79)
• A negational partisan identity functions independently of affirmative partisan identity (similarity 0.79)
• Negative partisanship is operationalized through five socio-psychological identity domains (similarity 0.79)
• Prior research disagrees over which partisan camp White identity threats mobilize most (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given #expands (0.85)
• Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2696