Identity as a Variable

Abdelal, Rawi; Herrera, Yoshiko M.; Johnston, Alastair Iain; McDermott, Rose

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“…56. Abdelal et al 2006;Huddy and Khatib 2007;Sullivan, Fried, and Dietz 1992 Because the acquisition of capabilities could affect the balance of power, I designed a second experiment that did not. In it a country responds to a terrorist attack exercising its right to self-defense but also takes the law into its own hands, violating another's sovereignty and imposing collective punishment.…”

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How Attachments to the Nation Shape Beliefs About the World: A Theory of Motivated Reasoning

Herrmann¹

2017

Int Org

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If competing beliefs about political events in the world stem largely from information asymmetries, then more information and knowledge should reduce the gap in competing perceptions. Empirical studies of decision making, however, often find just the reverse: as knowledge and the stakes in play go up, the beliefs about what is happening polarize rather than converge. The theory proposed here attributes this to motivated reasoning. Emotions inside the observer shape beliefs along with information coming from the outside world. A series of experiments embedded in a national survey of Americans finds that a primary driver of the beliefs someone forms about globalization, other countries, and the politics in the Middle East is how strongly they attach their social identity to the United States. Attachment produces more intense positive and negative emotions that in turn shape the interpretation of unfolding events and lead norms to be applied in an inconsistent fashion. People, in effect, rewrite reality around their favored course of action, marrying the logic of appropriateness to their own preferences. Beliefs, consequently, are not independent of preferences but related to them. Motivated reasoning, while not consistent with rational models, is predictable and can lead to expensive mistakes and double standards that undermine liberal internationalism.All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.-John Locke 1690 1 The more people attach their identity to a nation, the more likely they are to feel stronger emotions toward other countries when those countries are seen as either contributing positively to the observer's country's goals or frustrating them. The emotions then bias the formation of beliefs in ways that release the observer from normative restrictions and license actions driven by the emotions.

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How Attachments to the Nation Shape Beliefs About the World: A Theory of Motivated Reasoning

Herrmann¹

2017

Int Org

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“…So, the basic function and the power of the concept of identity is at play no matter what sort of activity prevails within the economy. Interdisciplinary approach to the issue of identity sees it as a variable, a fluid category changing along the cultural, economy and political lines of activity within the community (Abdelai et al, 2006). The identity is structurally seen as a multiple dimension of urban life in two layers: as a content and a contestation.…”

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“…Interdisciplinary approach to the issue of identity proposed by Abdelai et al (2006), in contemporary cities also encounters the idea of "entrepreneurship city" (Kavaratzis, 2008:31) which includes far more complex policies and practices of identity, planned and projected as most of the entrepreneurial activities. Therefore, the free enterprise city identity is forming in a complex interplay of self-perception and external image, within the context of mass communication, mostly of commercial type.…”

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The City is more than just a Destination: An Insight into City Branding Practices in Croatia

Jelinčić

Vukić²,

Kostešić³

2017

SIP

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The article insists on a clear difference between place branding (city or nation branding) and destination branding, while a number of Croatian and some Southeast European cities, recognizing tourism as economic opportunity, tend to see their urban space almost exclusively as various destinations. Branding processes follow exactly the same line of development, often failing to include the main fabric of the city -the local community itself. In the article, branding processes of selected cities in Croatia and branding projects in several Southeast European cities have been researched. The results show that the majority of them have designed their brand identities as if tourism was the only cultural and economic fact the community has to offer. Places are turned into destinations and destination branding methods work only towards attracting the outsiders, which then results in the lack of sustainability for the insiders. Thus communities become 'tourism products' and, within such a framework, the issues of the real city identity, its carriers and forms are neglected. In the article the top-down approach to place branding is revisited, new factors -cultural and social participation -are recognised in the reconfiguration of economy and identity. This calls for grounding the place branding methods on the issue of self-perception connected to the vision of communal development. Thus a new concept of identity system is proposed as a theoretical frame for the working methodology. It is a new Sociologija i prostor, 55 (2017) 207 (1): 117-134 118S o c i o l o g i j a i p r o s t o r approach to branding (or rather identity making) which enables individuals to contribute to the collective symbolic framework respecting the city and its citizens while at the same time allowing outsiders to get to know its substantial values.

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“…They may, for example, bias one's choices through a logic of appropriateness, common sense, or habituation (Abdelal et al 2006), or they may increase cooperative behavior within one category and reduce it with those categories across the divide (Barth 1969). The distinctiveness of boundaries may thus increase, leading to the further perpetuation of the cognitive frameworks in question (Brubaker et al 2004;DiMaggio 1997).…”

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Researching Ethnic Relations as the Outcome of Political Processes

Flesken

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Researching Ethnic Relations as the Outcome of Political Processes AbstractEthnic diversity is often seen to be detrimental to peace and stability, particularly if ethnicity is the basis for political mobilization. Mobilization is assumed to increase the salience of ethnicity, and with it in-group cohesion, out-group animosity, and national instability; yet the mechanisms have rarely been studied empirically. This article argues that we need to study ethnicity as the outcome of political processes, focus on the attitudinal mechanisms underlying ethnic relation; and examine this phenomenon at the individual level.To this end, the article first disaggregates the term "ethnicity" into attributes, meanings, and actions. Referring to constructivism, it then argues that political science should focus on meanings. Building on the theory and findings of social psychology, this paper shows that political science must distinguish analytically between meanings regarding different in-and out-group processes. Doing so can help advance the study of ethnic relations and conflict-management practices.

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Identity as a Variable

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How Attachments to the Nation Shape Beliefs About the World: A Theory of Motivated Reasoning

How Attachments to the Nation Shape Beliefs About the World: A Theory of Motivated Reasoning

The City is more than just a Destination: An Insight into City Branding Practices in Croatia

Researching Ethnic Relations as the Outcome of Political Processes

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