Introduction to Dialogues: linked fate and the politics of groups and identities

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis article provides an introduction to the collection of short articles in recognition of the 25th anniversary of political scientist Michael C. Dawson's pioneering book, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton 1994). Each article in this special Dialogues section uses data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) to help us understand the ways in which linked fate continues to be instrumental to the discipline of political science and the social sciences more broadly, as well as its limitations to our understanding of group identity in American political behavior and public opinion. This introduction also offers a brief overview of the articles included in this special PGI Dialogues section.