What are the relationships between strength of racial identification, anger, and the political behavior of white women? Building on the literature on white identity politics and anger in political behavior, I argue that white identity and anger have a conditional relationship that leads to changes in multiple aspects of white women's political behavior. This dissertation uses the 2016 American National Election Survey and the 2016 Comprehensive Multiracial Post-election Survey to explore these associations. The findings show that there is a relationship between white racial identity conditioned on anger or threat and the strength of white women's partisanship and their issue opinions. When there is no anger or threat measure included, the relationship with political participation is weaker than expected which supports the importance of anger and its predecessor threat in the political behavior of white women. Overall, this dissertation expands the areas of white political behavior that are associated with strength of racial identity and anger as well as finding these relationships specifically with white women.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2137350 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Niezgoda, Meredith |
| Contributors | Branton, Regina, Martinez-Ebers, Valerie, English, Ashley, Walker, Lee D. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Niezgoda, Meredith, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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