Whether negational party identity is ideologically anchored remains untested
Evidence
Finally, the relationship of NPI with underlying ideological identification needs to be further explored to determine whether NPI is ideologically anchored or not, as this would have interesting implications in the study of the emergence of NPI with new parties. — Sabrina J. Mayer and Luana Russo, What one is not, 119
Categorization
- QUESTION: An open empirical question worth chasing — if NPI isn’t ideologically anchored, the negational-vs-affirmative distinction could decouple from traditional left-right space entirely.
- XREF: Directly feeds the We-They Engine thread’s distinction between identity built on opposition versus affirmation. — connects to: The negational-identity experiment sampled Latino college students split into affirmational and negational conditions — Chen-Bo Zhong, Adam D. Galinsky, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Negational racial identity and…, 31; Measurements previously conflated negative party identification with affective polarization. — Sabrina J. Mayer and Luana Russo, What one is not: a new scale to measure…, 33; Negative partisan identification remains neglected relative to positive partisan identity — Sabrina J. Mayer and Luana Russo, What one is not: a new scale to measure…, 115 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Negational identities produce both out-group derogation and in-group favoritism
#expands(0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1112 - Political identity derives from difference, never from an undivided self
#expands(0.76) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 521 - Postmodern oppositional identifications are weaker than modernist class antagonisms
#qualifies(0.72) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 257