Identity Threat: Party Membership, Partisanship and Group Identity in Panama

• In Event: Latin American Politics

Brief Overview

We hypothesize that threats to the status of an in-group party by out-group party leaders will reduce collective self-esteem and increase derogation toward out-group members, which we test with a survey experiment.

Authors

• Juan Diego Alvarado, University of Maryland

• Marcus Aaron Johnson, Princeton University