The Political Self: How Identity Aligns Preferences With Epistemic Needs

The political reference point: How geography shapes political identity

It is commonly assumed that how individuals identify on the political spectrum-whether liberal, conservative, or moderate-has a universal meaning when it comes to policy stances and voting behavior. But, does political identity mean the same thing from place to place? Using data collected from across the U.S. we find that even when people share the same political identity, those in "bluer" loca...

The Influence of Competing Identity Primes on Political Preferences

In our increasingly diverse society, most Americans identify with more than one group. These multiple identities often align with conflicting policy choices, such as when a Democratic parent may support increased social services spending from a partisan perspective but may also worry about the increasing national debt as a parent. Given the significance of identity, political elites often work ...

Identity in epistemic semantics

This paper is a contribution to the semantical theory of different types of knowledge ascription, in particular the semantics of ‘knowing who’ and of the interaction between quantifiers and epistemic modal expressions. In possible world semantics, the truth conditions of such sentences depend on the way that identity across possible worlds is modeled. The main argument of this paper is that the...

Political Identity of Dagestanis

This article  studyies Political Identity of Dagestani people in the North Caucasus. At the first, I have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with Dagestanis. This theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

It’s Political: How the Salience of One’s Political Identity Changes Climate Change Beliefs and Policy Support