“Nation” and “Nationalism”: The Misuse of Key Concepts in Political Science

Barrington, Lowell W.

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“…In the literature on state-formation, nation-states are understood to consist of two distinguishable dimensions (e.g. Barrington 1997). Firstly, the state provides political institutions that are legalised and accepted both inside and outside its borders and that impose some degree of universalistic standardisation upon its citizens.…”

Section: State Formation Nation-states and The Homogenised Citizenmentioning

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How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

Hjerm

Schnabel

2012

Nations and Nationalism

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Cultural and economic heterogeneity is often seen as a major threat to modern welfare states. This article contributes to the discussion of how much heterogeneity the welfare state can endure by theoretically and empirically focusing on the relationship between different levels of national identity and the support for welfare state policies. We analyse the effect of different types of national identity on attitudes towards taxation and redistribution. We show that it is the subjective aspect of national identity, or social cohesion, that in fact matters for predicting attitudes to the welfare state. In comparison, more objective measures of heterogeneity like the inequality of income distribution, language fractionalisation or the percentage of foreign‐born individuals do not have any effect on attitudes to the welfare state.

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Section: State Formation Nation-states and The Homogenised Citizenmentioning

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How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

Hjerm

Schnabel

2012

Nations and Nationalism

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“…While interstate relations are usually assumed away in the literature on the origins of nationalism, IR theories tend to implicitly assume the ubiquity of nationalism in world politics without necessarily scrutinizing the relationship between interstate pol-1 This has been a most elusive task for the early students of nationalism. On the conceptual problems with the terms nation and nationalisms, see Barrington (1997) and Brubaker (1996).…”

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“…1 1 This has been a most elusive task for the early students of nationalism. On the conceptual problems with the terms nation and nationalisms, see Barrington (1997) and Brubaker (1996). …”

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Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context

Kadercan

2012

International Studies Review

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Kadercan, Burak. (2012) Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context. International Studies Review, doi: 10.1111/j.1468‐2486.2012.01135.x This essay aims to make a contribution to the conversation between IR and nationalism literatures by considering a particular question: What is the relationship between interstate military competition and the emergence of nationalism as a potent force in world politics? The conventional wisdom among international security scholars, especially neorealists, holds that nationalism can be more or less treated like a “technology” that allowed states to extract significant resources as well as manpower from their respective populations. This paper underlines some of the problems involved with this perspective and pushes forward an interpretation that is based on the logic of political survival. I argue that nationalism’s emergence as a powerful force in world politics followed from the “mutation” and absorption of the universalistic/cosmopolitan republican ideas that gained temporary primacy in Europe during the eighteenth century into particularistic nationalist ideologies. This transformation, in turn, can be best explained by the French Revolution’s dramatic impacts on rulers’ political survival calculi vis‐à‐vis both interstate and domestic political challenges. The analysis offered in this essay contributes to our understanding of the relationship between IR and nationalism while also highlighting the potential value of the political survival framework for exploring macrohistorical puzzles.

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“…In such singing there is an experience of simultaneity, and people wholly unknown to each other utter the same verses to the same melody. Therefore 'nationalism' is an ideology as well as loyalty to or action on behalf of the nation (Barrington 1997). Under nationalism, this paper discusses the development of Anglophone nationalist movement and online Anglophone nationalist groups whose primary mission is pertinent to the political and national development of the Anglophone state.…”

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Cyber‐nationalism: the imagined Anglophone Cameroon community in cyberspace

Anyefru

2008

African Identities

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“Nation” and “Nationalism”: The Misuse of Key Concepts in Political Science

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context

Cyber‐nationalism: the imagined Anglophone Cameroon community in cyberspace

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