The resistible rise of Identity Politics? A cross-cultural analysis of national identity use within right-wing populism and counter-interventions

身份政治的不可抗拒的崛起？

• 批准号: 2114082
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2114082
• 关键词: resistible; rise; Identity; Politics; cross

The proposal seeks to address a growing concern for many western democracies, the increase in right-wing populism and the co-opting of social identities for division, polarisation and discrimination. Using a Social Identity Approach the project proposes a comparative investigation into the use of social identities of 'the people' for division within right-wing populism and the development and evaluation of an intervention against this. Three research questions guide the project:RQ1. What are the ways that social identities of 'the people' are constructed within right-wing populism?RQ2. Are there a set of common themes/strategies in how social identities of 'the people' are used in exclusionary/divisive discourses for political purposes?RQ3. Can such commonality be used to design interventions against the use of social identities of 'the people' for exclusionary/divisive political purposes?Research Design Stage 1The initial investigation will be a comparative documentary analysis during three different political events within two democracies (UK and USA) to explore the first and second research questions on how social identities of 'the people' are constructed within right-wing populism and any common strategies.The three political events will be the May 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly elections, the US presidential election November 2016, and the UK Brexit referendum June 2016. Sources will be party leader speeches and two newspapers with right-wing editorial lines from a time period of six months leading up to each public vote. Thematic Analysis will be used to analyse sources due to its compatibility with both open ended enquiry and an a priori theoretical framework. The intention is to use both deductive coding, guided by the Social Identity Approach, but also inductive coding, remaining open to novel patterns. The grouping and labelling of themes will be related to the research questions and theoretical framework.Research Design Stage 2Stage 2 will use the thematic material from Stage 1 to develop a prejudice reduction intervention. Specifically, this intervention will involve eliciting self-reflexive thought processes about social identities among participants. This principle is based on research which demonstrates that fostering open and deliberative thought process can reduce inflexible, closed thinking behind prejudicial attitudes. However, there can be difficulty in phrasing findings to non-academic audiences, so to help with the development of an accessible language style we will first hold focus groups with members of the public to talk in an open, co-learning manner about the first stage material. This is guided by practices in participatory action research, where participant knowledge is valued and will inform the co-development of an intervention which is engaging and relevant.The intervention will be evaluated using a mixed-measure design with between participant factor as condition (intervention vs. control) and within participant factor as attitude measurement (before vs. after). Participants will be recruited and the experiment conducted online, facilitating a larger sample and mimicking how many people experience political content today. Participants' intergroup attitudes will be measured on a self-report Likert-scale, firstly after being shown an article to elicit social identity responses, and once more after the intervention which displays and deconstructs the strategies of social identity use to influence opinion. In control condition participants will experience a message discussing the previous article but without any social identity comments. Strength of in-group identification will be measured before any presentation of material to measure moderation effects on the intervention. Data will be analysed using t-tests and moderated regression analysis.

该提案旨在解决许多西方民主国家日益增长的担忧，即右翼民粹主义的增加以及社会身份的分裂，两极分化和歧视。该项目采用社会认同方法，提出了一项比较调查，探讨右翼民粹主义内部利用“人民”的社会认同进行分裂的问题，并制定和评估针对这一问题的干预措施。三个研究问题指导该项目：RQ 1。在右翼民粹主义中，“人民”的社会身份是如何构建的？RQ 2.在出于政治目的的排他性/分裂性话语中，“人民”的社会身份如何被使用，是否有一套共同的主题/策略？RQ 3.这种共性是否可以用来设计干预措施，反对利用“人民”的社会身份来达到排斥/分裂的政治目的？研究设计阶段1初步调查将是一个比较文件分析，在三个不同的政治事件在两个民主国家（英国和美国），探讨第一和第二个研究问题，即“人民”的社会身份如何在右翼民粹主义和任何共同战略中构建。这三个政治事件将是2016年5月的北方爱尔兰议会选举，2016年11月的美国总统大选和2016年6月的英国脱欧公投。来源将是党的领导人的讲话和两份报纸与右翼的编辑路线，从六个月的时间内导致每次公众投票。主题分析将用于分析来源，因为它与开放式调查和先验理论框架兼容。其目的是使用演绎编码，社会身份的方法，但也归纳编码，保持开放的新模式。研究设计第二阶段第二阶段将使用第一阶段的主题材料来开发减少偏见的干预措施。具体来说，这种干预将涉及引发参与者对社会身份的自我反思思维过程。这一原则是基于研究表明，培养开放和审议的思维过程可以减少偏见态度背后的僵化，封闭的思维。然而，向非学术受众表达研究结果可能会有困难，因此为了帮助开发一种无障碍的语言风格，我们将首先与公众举行焦点小组讨论，以开放，共同学习的方式讨论第一阶段的材料。这是由参与式行动研究的实践指导的，参与者的知识受到重视，并将为参与和相关的干预的共同发展提供信息。干预将使用混合测量设计进行评估，参与者因素之间作为条件（干预与控制），参与者因素内作为态度测量（之前与之后）。参与者将被招募，实验将在网上进行，以促进更大的样本，并模仿今天有多少人经历政治内容。参与者的组间态度将被测量的自我报告Likert规模，首先被显示后的文章，以引起社会身份的反应，并再次干预后，显示和解构的策略，社会身份的使用，以影响意见。在控制条件下，参与者将体验到一条讨论前一篇文章的消息，但没有任何社会身份评论。在展示任何材料之前，将测量组内认同的强度，以测量对干预的调节作用。将使用t检验和适度回归分析来分析数据。