Patriotism, Politics, and the Presidential Election of 1988

Sullivan, John L.; Fried, Amy; Dietz, Mary G.

doi:10.2307/2111430

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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

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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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Section: A Strategy For Evaluating the Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Herrmann¹

2017

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“…8 While these questions allow respondents to express their pride in a number of different domains and degrees of loyalty, what is common to them is positive affect toward the nation. With respect to xenophobia, most surveys ask respondents to attribute positive or negative adjectives to immigrants or assign them responsibility for improving or deflating the quality of life in the country (Sullivan, Fried, and Dietz 1992;Citrin, Wong, and Duff 2001;Feshbach 1994;Kosterman and Feshbach 1989;Sniderman et al 2000).…”

Section: A One Dimensional Conception Of National Pride and Its Relatmentioning

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Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry into the Vices of In‐Group Pride

Figueiredo¹,

Elkins²

2003

American J Political Sci

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One view in the study of intergroup conflict is that pride implies prejudice. However, an increasing number of scholars have come to view in-group pride more benignly, suggesting that such pride can be accompanied by a full range of feelings toward the out-group. In this article, we focus on a substantively interesting case of in-group/out-group attitudes-national pride and hostility toward immigrants. We explore the relationship in two fundamental ways: first by examining the prejudice associated with various dimensions of pride, and second by embedding these relationships in a comprehensive model of prejudice. We find that national pride is most validly measured with two dimensions-patriotism and nationalism-two dimensions that have very different relationships with prejudice. While nationalists have a strong predilection for hostility toward immigrants, patriots show no more prejudice than does the average citizen.

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“…Moreover, the potential benefits of having a citizenry that possesses strong attachments to the U.S. (e.g., Schatz, Staub, and Lavine, 1999;Sullivan, Fried, and Dietz, 1992;Theiss-Morse, 2003) and today's climate of ethnic change and cultural tensions make it additionally important to examine how self-identification and perceptions of discrimination among immigrants and their children shape the development of the efficacious and civic-minded attitudes and behaviors that national attachments can engender.…”

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The Rise and Fall of Political Engagement among Latinos: The Role of Identity and Perceptions of Discrimination

2005

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This study analyzes how perceptions of discrimination against oneself and/or one's group and whether one self-identifies in national (American), national origin, or panethnic terms affect levels of political engagement among Latinos in the United States. The findings show that perceptions of discrimination against oneself are particularly damaging in that they promote both behavioral and attitudinal alienation (e.g., non-voting and lack of trust), especially among Latinos who identify primarily as American. Behavioral alienation can be mitigated, and even overcome, when perceptions of discrimination are accompanied by a panethnic or national origin self-identification. However, the attitudinal alienation created by perceptions of discrimination is not mitigated by any type of self-identification. These findings shed light on understudied factors that affect political engagement that are going to become more important to understand as the American population continues its ethnic diversification. In addition to expanding our knowledge of political engagement generally, this study also raises important questions about whether the adoption of an American selfidentification is in fact beneficial for the health of our participatory political system as a whole.

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Patriotism, Politics, and the Presidential Election of 1988

Cited by 92 publications

References 14 publications

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

Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry into the Vices of In‐Group Pride

The Rise and Fall of Political Engagement among Latinos: The Role of Identity and Perceptions of Discrimination

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