Post‐loss power building: The feedback effects of policy loss on group identity and collective action

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Feedback Effects

scholarly journals From Anti-Vaxxer Moms to Militia Men: Influence Operations, Narrative Weaponization, and the Fracturing of American Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Weinberg ◽  
Jessica Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

How in 2020 were anti-vaxxer moms mobilized to attend reopen protests alongside armed militia men? This paper explores the power of weaponized narratives on social media both to create and polarize communities and to mobilize collective action and even violence. We propose that focusing on invocation of specific narratives and the patterns of narrative combination provides insight into the shared sense of identity and meaning different groups derive from these narratives. We then develop the WARP (Weaponize, Activate, Radicalize, Persuade) framework for understanding the strategic deployment and presentation of narratives in relation to group identity building and individual responses. The approach and framework provide powerful tools for investigating the way narratives may be used both to speak to a core audience of believers while also introducing and engaging new and even initially unreceptive audience segments to potent cultural messages, potentially inducting them into a process of radicalization and mobilization.

Psychosocial pathways of collective action participation in NIMBY conflict: A regulated double mediation model

2020 ◽  
pp. 002072092093142
Author(s):  
Bin Guo ◽  
KunJi Li
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Group Effectiveness ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Deprivation Group ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Group Emotions

Frequent NIMBY conflicts have seriously affected social stability and urban development. This paper aims to explore the psychosocial path of people participating in the collective action of NIMBY conflict, and to provide theoretical basis for effective governance of NIMBY conflict. By integrating the psychosocial explanatory variables related to collective action, we construct a regulated double mediation Model, which is empirically tested with 566 questionnaires from the NIMBY conflict in gaoling, China. The results show that: group relative deprivation, group emotions and group effectiveness have positive effects on people's NIMBY conflict participation tendency; group effectiveness and group emotions are important mediating variables of group relative deprivation affecting people's NIMBY conflict participation tendency; group identity has a positive adjustment effect on people's group emotions, group effectiveness, and the participation tendency of NIMBY conflict. The research indicates that group relative deprivation is the key precursor of NIMBY conflict, group emotion is the key factor driving the deterioration of NIMBY conflict, and group identity is the key factor catalyzing the occurrence of NIMBY conflict. This study helps to explain the psychological mechanism of people's participation in NIMBY conflict, and has certain implications for the prevention and governance of NIMBY conflict.

The Energizing Role of Contact and Common In-group Identity on Collective Action Among Non-indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
David Sirlopú ◽  
Huseyin Çakal ◽  
Halime Unver ◽  
Natalia Salas ◽  
Anja Eller
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Indigenous Groups

scholarly journals Identity Expression Through Collective Action: How Identification With a Politicized Group and Its Identity Contents Differently Motivated Identity-Expressive Collective Action in the U.S. 2016 Presidential Elections

2020 ◽  
pp. 014616722093340
Author(s):  
Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels ◽  
Martijn van Zomeren
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Identity Expression ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Specific Identity

Although political action often requires activists to express who they are and what they stand for, little is known about the motivators of such identity expression. This research investigates how group identity content and identification with this content predict identity-expressive collective action in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. We recruited a longitudinal community sample of U.S. party supporters ( N = 426) mid-October (T1), beginning November (T2), and mid-November (T3). Participants listed words they associated with party campaigners, and self-reported their identification with this identity content and the politicized group. Supporting H1, politicized group identification longitudinally predicted increased frequency of collective action more strongly than did identification with specific identity content. Supporting H2, identification with specific identity content longitudinally predicted increased desires to express that content through collective action more strongly than politicized group identification. Implications for our understanding of identity expression and identity content in collective action are discussed.

scholarly journals Collective action and subordinate group identity in a simulated society game

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUKIO HIROSE ◽  
YUMIKO TARESAWA ◽  
TATSUYA OKUDA
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Subordinate Group

scholarly journals “We Thinking” and Its Consequences

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (5) ◽  
pp. 415-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Akerlof
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Common Group ◽  
Shed Light

Increasingly, economists are drawing on concepts from outside economics--such as “norms,” “esteem,” and “identity”--to model agents' social natures. A key reason for studying such social motivation is to shed light on the conditions that facilitate--or deter--collective action. It has been widely observed, for instance, that groups are more able to engage in collective action when they have a common, group identity. This paper gives one explanation for such a link. The paper develops a new concept, “we thinking”; and it also provides a deeper understanding of the concepts of norms, identity, and esteem.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Pseudonymity and Participation in Legal Mobilization

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste L. Arrington
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Paired Comparison ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Blood Products ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Costly Signal

How and when do people participate in sustained collective action via the courts? Previous research highlights group identity or resources and political opportunities but overlooks civil procedural rules’ effects beyond the courtroom. This article explores how rules regarding privacy shape individuals’ decisions about sustained participation. Fears of exposing one’s identity deter participation, especially in the context of public trials. Yet, a paired comparison of litigation by victims of hepatitis C-tainted blood products in Japan and Korea reveals that court-supervised privacy protections, which were available in Japan but not in Korea, facilitate plaintiffs’ participation inside and outside the courtroom. They ease plaintiff recruitment and enhance claimants’ credibility. Counterintuitively, they also let claimants strategically shed pseudonymity to send a costly signal about their commitment to the cause. Theorizing “pseudonymous participation” as an understudied mode of activism between full exposure and anonymity demonstrates that seemingly technical aspects of law have significant political consequences.

Collective identity, rationality and collective political action

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Dieter Opp
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Additive Effects ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Standard Assumption ◽  
Feedback Effects

This paper explores the effects of collective identity on protest behavior by applying an extended version of the theory of collective action. Hypotheses are derived about the following questions that are rarely addressed in the literature: Are there situations in which collective identity diminishes protest? The standard assumption is that collective identity increases protest behavior. Does collective identity have indirect effects – via the determinants of protest – on protest behavior? Are there feedback effects of protest participation on collective identity? The hypotheses that address these questions are tested with a three-wave panel study. Three findings are of particular interest: (1) the overall direct additive effects of identity on protest behavior are statistically not significant. (2) Evidence is provided that in solidary groups identity does not raise but reduce protest. (3) The major effects of identity are indirect: identity influences the determinants of protest.

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