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Identities and Interests
Race, Ethnicity, and Affinity Voting
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Randy Besco
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
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The electoral behaviour of racialized voters and politicians has captured little attention outside the United States. Identities and Interests offers a new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Combining survey data experiments with candidate and census data, Randy Besco demonstrates that self-identification matters far more than self-interest, ideology, or policy. The largest minority groups – Chinese and South Asian Canadians – tend to support candidates of their own ethnicity. Yet inter-minority affinity voting also reveals the potential for “rainbow coalitions” and how minorities themselves think in terms of a white/non-white divide. Besco distinguishes pure in-group bias from the positive effects stemming from affinity voting and calls for a more nuanced evaluation of the role of identity in politics. Overall, his findings have major implications for social movements, issue opinions, fundraising, and political leadership races. Identities and Interests gets to the heart of our understanding of democracy and citizenship.
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Randy Besco is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. His research has been published in Party Politics and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
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Stephen Fisher, associate professor in political sociology and fellow of Trinity College, Oxford University:
Randy Besco provides the most thorough investigation, for any country, of when ethnic minorities vote for other minority candidates. Notions of identity are key. The findings are important for understanding election outcomes in any diverse democracy, and identity politics generally.
Randy Besco provides the most thorough investigation, for any country, of when ethnic minorities vote for other minority candidates. Notions of identity are key. The findings are important for understanding election outcomes in any diverse democracy, and identity politics generally.
Jane Junn, professor of political science and gender and sexuality studies, University of Southern California, and editor of New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics:
Innovative and insightful, Identities and Interests forges new ground in revealing the dynamics of ethnic identity and voting in Canada. This 'must-read' by Besco is a welcome addition to scholarship in the politics and race and ethnicity.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Framing and Explaining Affinity Voting
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Coethnic and Racialized Affinity in Canada
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The Importance of Self-Identification
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Ethnic Identity and Voter Behaviour
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The Role of Interests, Ideology, and Policy
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Affinity Voting in Federal Elections
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Conclusion
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Appendices
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Notes
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References
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Index
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