Do Violent Protests Affect Expressions of Party Identity? Evidence from the Capitol Insurrection
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Do Violent Protests Affect Expressions of Party Identity? Evidence from the Capitol Insurrection. / Eady, Gregory; Hjorth, Frederik; Dinesen, Peter Thisted.
I: American Political Science Review, Bind 117, Nr. 3, 2023, s. 1151-1157.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Letter › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Do Violent Protests Affect Expressions of Party Identity?
T2 - Evidence from the Capitol Insurrection
AU - Eady, Gregory
AU - Hjorth, Frederik
AU - Dinesen, Peter Thisted
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, was the most dramatic contemporary manifestation of deep political polarization in the United States. Recent research shows that violent protests shape political behavior and attachments, but several questions remain unanswered. Using day-level panel data from a large sample of US social media users to track changes in the identities expressed in their Twitter biographies, we show that the Capitol insurrection caused a large-scale decrease in outward expressions of identification with the Republican Party and Donald Trump, with no indication of reidentification in the weeks that followed. This finding suggests that there are limits to party loyalty: a violent attack on democratic institutions sets boundaries on partisanship, even among avowed partisans. Furthermore, the finding that political violence can deflect copartisans carries the potential positive democratic implication that those who encourage or associate themselves with such violence pay a political cost.
AB - The insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, was the most dramatic contemporary manifestation of deep political polarization in the United States. Recent research shows that violent protests shape political behavior and attachments, but several questions remain unanswered. Using day-level panel data from a large sample of US social media users to track changes in the identities expressed in their Twitter biographies, we show that the Capitol insurrection caused a large-scale decrease in outward expressions of identification with the Republican Party and Donald Trump, with no indication of reidentification in the weeks that followed. This finding suggests that there are limits to party loyalty: a violent attack on democratic institutions sets boundaries on partisanship, even among avowed partisans. Furthermore, the finding that political violence can deflect copartisans carries the potential positive democratic implication that those who encourage or associate themselves with such violence pay a political cost.
U2 - 10.1017/S0003055422001058
DO - 10.1017/S0003055422001058
M3 - Letter
VL - 117
SP - 1151
EP - 1157
JO - American Political Science Review
JF - American Political Science Review
SN - 0003-0554
IS - 3
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