We Are One
The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6396232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Wamble (0000-0003-4169-7273, George Washington University), Julian J Wamble, Chryl N Laird (0000-0001-8648-7611, University of Maryland, College Park), Corrine M Mcconnaughy (0000-0001-5893-869X, Princeton University), Ismail K White (Princeton University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 682-697 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3816 • E-ISSN: 1468-2508 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/716300 |
| OpenAlex | W3183402964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 37 |
Despite growing ideological diversity within the group, black Americans have maintained their overwhelmingly unified support for the Democratic Party. We argue that black Democratic partisanship is upheld, in part, through black Americans' use of social sanctions (both positive and negative) to encourage compliance with a group norm of Democratic Party support. Leveraging the exogenous assignment of racial social context provided by the race of an interviewer in face-to-face American National Election Study survey interviews of black respondents, we demonstrate the racialized social imperative of black Democratic Party identification. We show that black respondents are more likely to identify as Democrats in the presence of other blacks, particularly those respondents whose conservative ideological placement provides a cross-pressuring incentive to otherwise make an alternative partisan choice. Our social explanation of black partisan homogeneity is a significant departure from previous accounts that have focused almost exclusively on attitudinal ascriptions to racial shared fate
Democracy · Economics · Ideology · Incentive · Loyalty · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |