Minority Versus Minority

Partisanship and Inter-Group Competitions Among Asian Americans

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ID6180353
AuthorsDongshu Liu (0000-0003-2435-3233, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Nathan Carrington (0000-0002-9705-4288, Syracuse University)
Year2022
Volume50
Issue2
Pages265-276
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Politics Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-673X • E-ISSN: 1552-3373
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532673x211053218
OpenAlexW4200574438
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited36

Increasingly salient in democratic politics are the divides among political parties regarding how they mobilize supports between ethnic majorities and minorities. Why, then, do some members of a minority group support political parties that seem antithetical to the interests of minority groups? We draw on group conflict theory to suggest that a partial explanation rests on perceived competition within minority groups. We test this theory by focusing on Republican Party support among Asian Americans in the United States. Based on two representative surveys and an original online survey experiment of Asian Americans, we demonstrate that perceived competition among racial minority groups has a significant effect on the partisanship of Asian American and pushes them toward the Republican Party. We also present observational evidence suggesting our theory applies to other minority groups. Our findings provide critical implications on how race affects politics in democracies with increasingly diversified ethnic minority groups

Asian americans · Democracy · Ethnic group · Minority group · Minority rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Salient · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology

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