Intraparty Hostility: Social Identity, Subidentity, and the Hostile Media Effect in a Contested Primary

İ. Alev Degım Flannagan

The hostile media effect (HME) has generally been tested in terms of in-groups and out-groups, with a neutral story in between. This ignores the nature of many social groups as comprising subgroups, often but not always sharing feelings of connectedness and purpose. In cases when bounded subgroups are at odds with one another, HME provides little guidance. A contested partisan primary provides such a case. This study takes identity centrality, candidate favorability, and perceived social network homogeneity as measures of partisanship and involvement, hypothesizing relationships between each a ...Daha fazlası