Testing Theories of the Identity-to-Politics Link in Whites with an Experiment

• In Event: Experiments Using Identity Appeals in Minority Politics

Brief Overview

Social Identity Theory and Group Position Theory have both been prominently employed in American Racial and Ethnic Politics, and both offer competing theories of white racial identification, which we test with a survey experiment.

Authors

• Colin Cepuran, Cornell University

• Sergio I. Garcia-Rios, Cornell University

• Justin Berry, Kalamazoo College