Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities

Sczepanski, Ronja

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“…Others, like Howe et al (2022), advocate for a more open conception, arguing from a constructivist perspective (Chandra, 2012;Wolkenstein and Wratil, 2021) that a social group can be any collective of people that share some attribute, including common values and life experiences. For example, attributes like "hard-working" and "moral righteousness" can be central to people's conceptions of their in-and out-groups (Sczepanski, 2023;Zollinger, 2022).…”

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Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric: A Supervised Learning Approach

Sczepanski¹,

Licht²

2023

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Politicians appeal to social groups to court their electoral support and secure their political survival. But quantifying which groups politicians refer to, claim to repre- sent, or address in their public communication presents researchers with challenges. We propose a novel supervised learning approach for identifying group mentions in political texts. We first collect human annotations to determine the exact text pas- sages that refer to social groups. We then fine-tune a Transformer language model for contextualized supervised classification at the word level. Applied to unlabeled texts, our approach enables researchers to detect and extract word spans that contain group mentions automatically. We illustrate the reliability, validity, and flexibility of our ap- proach in a study of British parties’ election manifestos, parliamentary questions, as well as German party manifestos. Our application demonstrates that our method en- ables highly reliable retrieval of group mentions at scale and new quantitative insights into group-based political rhetoric.

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confidence: 99%

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric: A Supervised Learning Approach

Sczepanski¹,

Licht²

2023

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Cleavage theory meets Bourdieu: studying the role of group identities in cleavage formation

Westheuser,

Zollinger

2024

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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In this paper, we develop a framework for studying the role of group identities in contemporary cleavage formation. Identities, we suggest, hold the key to a central conundrum of current political sociology: the fact that today’s electoral realignments appear to be rooted in the social structure of post-industrial societies, while the decline of mass organizations has dissolved traditional links between politics and social structure. Bringing cleavage theory into dialog with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, we theorize how group identities may play an important role in stabilizing a new universalism-particularism cleavage emerging in Western Europe today. We identify two key processes of cleavage identity formation: bottom-up processes of “social closure” and top-down “classification struggles” waged by political entrepreneurs. For both processes, we review empirical findings and formulate an agenda for further research.

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Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity

Kuhn

2024

Journal of European Public Policy

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While Ernst B. Haas is recognized among European integration scholars as a founding figure of neo-functionalism, his later writing on nationalism is less known to European integration scholars. I contribute to this special issue by discussing Haas’ later work on liberal nationalism and by reflecting on its insights for the study of collective identities in the European Union today. In a nutshell, Haas expected that (1) national and supranational identities are inherently rational and the expression of a deliberate choice, (2) citizens shift their identities from the national to the European level due to utilitarian considerations, (3) nationalism is not per se destructive, but it comes in many moulds and can be the basis for the international community. I argue that Haas’ emphasis on rational and deliberate identity choice clashes with our current understanding of identity as implicit and subliminal. Moreover, his optimism is challenged by the rise of radical-right-wing parties who have successfully mobilized exclusive nationalist identities against European integration. On the other hand, Haas’ emphasis on the double-edged nature of collective identity is an important reminder that also European identity, while striving to overcome exclusive nationalism, can reify its exclusiveness at the supranational level.

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Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities

Cited by 3 publications

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Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric: A Supervised Learning Approach

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric: A Supervised Learning Approach

Cleavage theory meets Bourdieu: studying the role of group identities in cleavage formation

Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity

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