Manifestations of Blind and Constructive Patriotism: Summary of Findings

Nationalism and Constructive Patriotism: A Longitudinal Test of Comparability in 22 Countries with the ISSP

“…From this perspective, nationalism and patriotism are subdimensions of national attachment, which is the more general concept. Bar-Tal (1997) and Schatz and Staub (1997) offered a similar proposition.…”

National Identity in a United Germany: Nationalism or Patriotism? An Empirical Test With Representative Data

“…It is also called "patriotism" (Bar-Tal, 1997;Kosterman & Feshbach, 1989), "conventional patriotism" (Schatz & Staub, 1997), or Vaterlandsliebe (love of one's country) (Kelman, 1997). To this day, the definitions of these concepts are not clear.…”

Shifting Sands? Citizens' National Identities and Pride in Social Security in Canada

“…The first dimension includes a culture-centered conception of nationhood that rests on claims of membership based on shared historical experiences, genealogical descent, and/or religion. Within the literature, scholars have different terminological preferences for this dimension, referring to it as ethnic/genealogical nationalism (Smith 1991), blind patriotism (Schatz and Staub 1997), and chauvinism (Blank and Schmidt 2003, 292). Regardless of the label, this dimension presupposes the existence of an organic national community a priori of the state, and the national community is defined by shared ethnic, genealogical, historical, and/or cultural lines.…”

“…This dimension of national identity has also been variously labeled in such terms as "civic/voluntaristic" (Smith 1991), "constructive patriotism" (Schatz and Staub 1997;Davidov 2009), "constitutional patriotism" (Habermas 1996), and "state-centered" (Zimmer 2003). While this dimension includes feelings of love and pride for a nation, it can be distinguished from the more generalized feeling of attachment because the affection is tied to a specific construction of the nation, rooted in humanistic and democratic values and principles (Davidov 2009).…”