Adam S. Harris

Everyday Identity and Electoral Politics (eBook, PDF)

Race, Ethnicity, and the Bloc Vote in South Africa and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

Between one third and half of voters in Sub-Saharan Africa do not vote for their ethnic group's party. The magnitude of these numbers suggests that not voting in line with one's ethnic group may often be the norm, not the aberration in many ethnically divided societies. So when and why do voters choose not to vote for their ethnic group's party even when it is often advantageous to do so? In Everyday Identity and Electoral Politics, Adam S. Harris explores how social identities, such as ethnicity and race, influence politics and voting behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a continuous conceptualization of ethnicity, he explains that individuals who are not readily associated with their ethnic group are less likely to vote along ethnic lines and more likely to be swing voters in elections that are centered around ethnic divisions. Drawing upon original survey data, survey experiments, interviews, focus groups, and participant observations, Harris conceptualizes a theory of identity construction that both predicts differences in vote choice and theorizes how the identity construction process shapes differential outcomes in vote choice within ethnic groups. A novel study of "atypical" voters who do not go along with their ethnic or racial cohorts in the voting booth, this book sheds new light on the complex and nuanced relationship between ethnic group membership and political preferences, as well as the malleability of ethnicity and race as categories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197638217
• Artikelnr.: 64387111

Autorenporträt

Adam S. Harris is an Associate Professor in Development Politics in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at University College London. Prior to joining UCL, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Governance and Local Development (GLD) program at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2015-2017); he is currently a member of the GLD Steering Committee and a Research Associate with the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University (2015). He studies ethnic, race, development, and African politics with a focus on political participation using experimental, survey, and mixed methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Theory of Sociological Attachment
Chapter 3: What is Ethnic Distance?
Chapter 4: The South African Case
Chapter 5: Study Design and Empirical Ethnic Distance Measure
Chapter 6: The Empirical Relationship Between Ethnic Distance and Voter Behavior
Chapter 7: Beyond South Africa
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index