‘You are not my type’: the role of identity in evaluating democracy & human rights promotion

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buir.contributor.authorTokdemir, Efe
buir.contributor.orcidTokdemir, Efe|0000-0002-9579-1292
dc.citation.epage94en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage74en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber24en_US
dc.contributor.authorTokdemir, Efe
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-10T11:41:05Z
dc.date.available2022-02-10T11:41:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-02
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we examine the impact of the democracy and human rights promotion efforts that are supposed to bolster positive attitudes among the public abroad and act as a tool to reach hearts and minds. Yet, we suggest that a salient in-group versus out-group dichotomy within a society could activate a reactive devaluation bias, and hence, conditions how individuals perceive and react to foreign actors and their policies depending on the source country and its links with in- and out-groups within the target state. By employing an original public opinion survey from Lebanon, we find that identities, and the level of attachment to the identity, affect individuals’ attitudes towards human rights and democracy promotion efforts. Our results offer important policy implications: practitioners should comprehensively reconsider the benefits of hearts and minds tools, as pre-existing attitudes are the main drivers of how these policies will be evaluated by the public abroad.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/13691481211016946en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1467-856X
dc.identifier.issn1369-1481
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/77228
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1177/13691481211016946en_US
dc.source.titleThe British Journal of Politics and International Relationsen_US
dc.subjectDemocracy promotionen_US
dc.subjectForeign policyen_US
dc.subjectHuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectLebanonen_US
dc.subjectPublic opinion abroaden_US
dc.title‘You are not my type’: the role of identity in evaluating democracy & human rights promotionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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