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Social Cleavages and Political Divisions: A Comparative Analysis of British, American and South African Jews in the 1990s
Author(s): Kotler-Berkowitz, Laurence A.
Date: 2002
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Divisions, Comparisons with other communities, Politics
Ethnicity and Politics: Cohesion, Division and British Jews
Author(s): Kotler-Berkowitz, Laurence A.
Date: 2001
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Surveys, Social Attitudes, Politics, Divisions, Comparisons with other communities
Abstract: Structural, cultural, psychological and materialist theories support the proposition that political cohesion and division in ethnic groups are a function of ethnic cohesion and division generally. The proposition is applied to British Jews, and data from the first nationally representative survey of British Jews are employed to test an empirical hypothesis linking strong manifestations of ethnicity to Conservative partisanship. Results from multinomial logistic regression analysis support the hypothesis, and transformations to probabilities demonstrate the strong effect of ethnic divisions on party divisions. Comparisons are drawn between British Jews and other British ethnic minorities, and between British and American Jews.