Other-regarding preferences, in-group bias and political participation: An experiment

Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2017.04.009

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“…The degree to which a person identifies as a member of a particular group influences various modes of political participation (e.g., Robalo, Schram, & Sonnemans, 2017). Studies explain this increased likelihood to participate in political actions due to a sense of shared experience with other ingroup members and a shared fate with them (Van Stekelenburg & Klandermans, 2013), which can be understood as part of the group self-definition dimension.…”

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Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression

Velásquez

Montgomery

Hall

2019

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Latinos represent a large ethnic minority group in the United States, but their political participation, including on social media, is low compared to other groups. Guided by social identity and social cognitive theories, this study examines the influence of two dimensions of ingroup identification (i.e., group self-definition, group self-investment) on Latinos(as)' political expression about immigration and Latino culture on social media, the mediating role of pro-attitudinal selective exposure to media content related to these topics, and the moderating role of collective efficacy. Results suggest a positive and consistent association between group self-definition and social media political expression (SMPE) about both topics. Further, pro-attitudinal selective exposure was found to mediate the relationship between group self-definition and expression about both topics. Finally, collective efficacy moderated the relationship between group self-definition and SMPE about immigration.

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Section: Ingroup Identification Political Participation and Social Me...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression

Velásquez

Montgomery

Hall

2019

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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“…They find that stronger communication-more words, more content-has a positive effect on the ingroup and a negative effect on the outgroup. Robalo et al (2017) also induce ingroup bias in an experiment related to political issues without using communication. They group people according to the results of a personality questionnaire and find that political participation is higher when ingroup bias is stronger.…”

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Deliberative structures and their impact on voting under economic conflict

2021

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We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate how different deliberative structures of varying inclusiveness affect collective decisions in the presence of economic conflict. An electorate consists of two groups, one informed and one uninformed about an uncertain state of the economy. This state affects payoffs differently for the two groups. We study three deliberative structures that vary in how the uninformed are included in pre-vote communication. Compared with a setting without any communication, we find that communication in all three deliberation treatments leads to more frequent votes for the efficient policies. The most inclusive deliberative structure motivates more truthfulness, more trust, more cooperativeness (i.e. refraining from protest votes), and more votes for the efficient policies, than the least inclusive structure. However, comparison among the deliberation treatments reveals that the most inclusive deliberative structure is not the one that generates the highest degree of truthfulness. The dynamics of communication lead to a general deterioration of truth-telling and cooperativeness, reinforced by the use of disrespectful and uncooperative language.

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“… 7. For an alternative, albeit related, formalization of group bias and other-regarding preferences in a unified framework, see Robalo et al (2017). For a review of general altruism models, see Rotemberg (2014). …”

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Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism

Kustov

2020

Comparative Political Studies

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Anti-immigration preferences among educated and racially egalitarian voters is hard to explain using existing frameworks of self-interest or prejudice. I address this puzzle by developing a theory of parochial altruism, which stipulates that voters are motivated to help others at a cost, but they prioritize helping compatriots. I hypothesize that parochial altruists or voters high in both “nationalism” and “altruism” are more supportive of immigration restrictions perceived to be in the national interest. However, parochial altruists are also expected to be more supportive of increasing immigration when it benefits their compatriots. I test my theory by conducting a population-based UK survey. Using a novel measure of elicited preferences, I first find most altruists who donate to domestic rather than global charities are as anti-immigration as egoists who do not donate at all. Using a conjoint experiment, I then show voters support increasing immigration when these alternative policies benefit their compatriots.

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Other-regarding preferences, in-group bias and political participation: An experiment

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression

Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression

Deliberative structures and their impact on voting under economic conflict

Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism

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