Sabrina J. Mayer and Luana Russo — What one is not: a new scale to measure Negative Party Identity in multiparty systems
17 published claims from this book.
- A negational partisan identity functions independently of affirmative partisan identity
- A parsimonious NPI measure suitable to multiparty systems is feasible.
- Identity-framed party items built for two-party systems misfire in multiparty systems.
- Measurements previously conflated negative party identification with affective polarization.
- Negative identification against radical-right parties can raise democratic satisfaction.
- Negative partisan identification remains neglected relative to positive partisan identity
- Negative partisanship is operationalized through five socio-psychological identity domains
- Negative party identification mobilizes voters as strongly as positive identification.
- Negative party identity captures deeper feelings than thermometer-style antipathy alone.
- Negative party identity lowers democratic satisfaction except toward far-right parties
- New partisan-identity scales can be built via a seven-step validation protocol.
- Overlapping measures of NPI and affective polarization make testing their theorized causal link impossible.
- Partisanship differs from ascribed identities since it is voluntary and party-dependent.
- Prior negative-party measures tapped only thermometer ratings and vote refusal.
- The six-item disliked-party battery shows high internal consistency.
- Validated NPI measurement can flexibly target one, some, or all parties
- Whether negational party identity is ideologically anchored remains untested