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Principal investigators:
Alexander Kuo
Cornell University
Email: agk72@cornell.edu
Homepage: http://government.arts.cornell.edu/faculty/kuo/
Yotam Margalit
Columbia University
Email: ym2297@columbia.edu
Homepage: http://www.columbia.edu/~ym2297/index.html
Sample size: 1117
Field period: 10/20/2005-02/12/2006
A growing field of scholarship in comparative politics examines the role of identity in determining political outcomes. An assumption in the literature is that how individuals identify
themselves reveals the political issues and social cleavages along which they are likely to mobilize. We propose an experiment that shows self-reported identity is more malleable than previously thought, undermining the notion that a systematic link exists between individual self-identification and politically salient cleavages.
We expect that exposure to a manipulation will influence a participant to respond differently to the final two self-identification questions, as opposed to the control-group respondent who will be unexposed to the vignette.
We propose three different experimental treatments. The vignette
categories will prompt individual identification by nationality, race/ethnicity, or occupation. To reduce the probability of contamination of our specified treatment, the vignette and its attendant questions should be the only treatment that would affect respondent self-identification.
Measures of self-identification.
For more information, see the proposal document in the "data and study materials" folder.