Social identities in the policy process

Hornung, Johanna; Bandelow, Nils C.; Vogeler, Colette S.

doi:10.1007/s11077-018-9340-6

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“…Scientists predict that immigration, accumulation and intergroup relations will determine the connection of all future leaders, government officials and more. At the same time, the notion of culture is becoming increasingly blurred, given the multiplicity and intertwining of social identity resulting from the transnational movement and the transfer of values [11], [12].…”

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Nation’s Historical Past under Multicultural Conditions

Abysova*,

Antipova,

Pavlyshyn

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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 Abstract: The research issue is the historical past of the ethnic group as the most important component of social consciousness, which determines the social life practices and serves as the basis for the solidarity in society and the ground for its purposeful development. A wide range of concepts concerning the attitude to the historical past as one of the most important components of collective goal setting, in particular, theories of mentality, interpretation of texts and conflict of interpretations, historical hermeneutics, and conceptual models of history are investigated. It has been proved that the concepts of the single picture of ethnological history disappear under the influence of the multicultural characteristics, when the exclusive right of historical evaluation and interpretation is lost, and the changing set of situationally significant fragments becomes a priority. It is revealed that in the conditions of pluralism of thoughts and ideas caused by the emergence of non-state social actors, enhanced migration flows, increased communication opportunities of the society and internationalization of higher education, the appeal of social actors to their historical past in order to support their social and cultural borders and to forecast new social projects is complicated. A number of objective and subjective factors of disorganization of national history memory are stated in the research

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Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nation’s Historical Past under Multicultural Conditions

Abysova*,

Antipova,

Pavlyshyn

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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“…In this study, we contrast beliefs to social identity as an alternative plausible driver of the devil shift. Hornung, Bandelow, and Vogeler (2019) suggest that there are potential benefits in combining SIT with the ACF. They specifically identify similar grounds as well as the potential of SIT to contribute a more elaborated understanding of inter-coalitional relations and, by extension, the devil shift.…”

Section: Drivers Of the Devil Shift In Contentious Policy Issuesmentioning

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Beliefs, social identity, and the view of opponents in Swedish carnivore management policy

2020

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In the policy sciences, the intractability of disputes in natural resource governance is commonly explained in terms of a "devil shift" between rival policy coalitions. In a devil shift, policy actors overestimate the power of their opponents and exaggerate the differences between their own and their opponents' policy beliefs. While the devil shift is widely recognized in policy research, knowledge of its causes and solutions remains limited. Drawing insights from the advocacy coalition framework and social identity theory, we empirically explore beliefs and social identity as two potential drivers of the devil shift. Next, we investigate the potential of collaborative venues to decrease the devil shift over time. These assumptions are tested through statistical analyses of longitudinal survey data targeting actors involved in three policy subsystems within Swedish large carnivore management. Our evidence shows, first, that the devil shift is more pronounced if coalitions are defined by shared beliefs rather than by shared identity. Second, our study shows that participation in collaborative venues does not reduce the devil shift over time. We end by proposing methodological and theoretical steps to advance knowledge of the devil shift in contested policy subsystems.

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“…The need to belong, affiliate, reinforce, and elevate one's group is a strong psychological motivation (Baumeister and Leary 1995). Social identities and the biology of groups (Hornung et al 2018;Forsyth 2019) incline policymakers toward conformity with party policy views, party loyalty, party-affiliated campaign themes and public expressions, and party-line voting (Bernheim 1994;Cialdini and Goldstein 2004;Berns et al 2005;Yu and Sun 2013;Close 2016;Harell 2018;Cherry 2019). Financial incentives in party-driven or inspired fundraising and ideological views within parties add strong practical constraints against centrist moderation (Mann and Corrado 2014;O'Donnell 2016;Gehl and Porter 2017;Tomasky 2019a).…”

Section: Party-ideology Polarizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframe policymaking dysfunction through bipartisan-inclusion leadership

Straka¹,

Straka

2020

Policy Sci

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Persistent policy failures have been examined in recent years with a focus on the role of political systems. We evaluate the growth of dysfunctional policymaking in the U.S. and propose a countering approach. Policy failures often reflect partisan policy stalemate, errors or unintended consequences, polarized extremism or imbalance, or partisan reversals with changes in power. Extremes in partisanship are not new historically, but growing policy failures due to negative partisanship have now severely damaged public trust. More "party blind" conditions in policy formulation may be able to renew a more productive social contract. We propose a disruptive presidential leadership approach of bipartisan inclusion to seek to reframe the partisan divides, counter negative partisanship and extremes, re-establish better policymaking interactions, and improve governance and policy outcomes. Dysfunctional policymaking has been attributed to Republicans and Democrats in a Prisoner's Dilemma. Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas often lead to higher rates of cooperation, and similarly, historical policymaking included greater cooperation, but in recent decades the bipartisan norms of governance have substantially eroded. We describe three complementary explanations, which suggest that non-cooperative partisan policymaking has become self-reinforcing, and institutional changes to promote cooperation should focus on lowering the risk-adjusted cost-benefit ratio, making cooperation safer and more attractive for policymakers.

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Social identities in the policy process

Cited by 97 publications

References 111 publications

Nation’s Historical Past under Multicultural Conditions

Nation’s Historical Past under Multicultural Conditions

Beliefs, social identity, and the view of opponents in Swedish carnivore management policy

Reframe policymaking dysfunction through bipartisan-inclusion leadership

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