Popular conceptions of nationhood in old and new European member states: Partial support for the ethnic-civic framework

Janmaat, Jan Germen

doi:10.1080/01419870500352363

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“…Ethnic and civic conceptions of nationhood are not mutually exclusive; people may support both types of nationhood (Janmaat, 2006), but it is generally thought that an ethnic conception of the nation is stronger associated with exclusion of migrants than a civic conception of the nation (Kunovich, 2009). As Bruter and Harrison (2011) identify, radical right parties define the nation by referring to what the majority shows to have in common, such as history and language.…”

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Nationalistic attitudes and voting for the radical right in Europe

Lubbers

Coenders

2017

European Union Politics

143

102

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Voting for radical right-wing parties has been associated most strongly with national identity threats. In Europe, this has been framed by the radical right in terms of mass-migration and European integration, or other politicians bargaining away national interests. Perhaps surprisingly given the radical right's nationalist ideology, nationalistic attitudes are hardly included in empirical research on the voting behaviour. In this contribution, we test to what extent various dimensions of nationalistic attitudes affect radical right voting, next to the earlier and new assessed effects of perceived ethnic threat, social distance to Muslims, Euroscepticism and political distrust. The findings show that national identification, national pride and an ethnic conception of nationhood are additional explanations of radical right voting. National identification's effect on radical right voting is found to be stronger when populations on average perceive stronger ethnic threat.

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Section: Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nationalistic attitudes and voting for the radical right in Europe

Lubbers

Coenders

2017

European Union Politics

143

102

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“…The ethnic-civic dichotomy has attracted a lot of criticism as an artificial and in many cases non-relevant methodological instrument owing to its 'deterministic vision of nationhood and the mixture of inclusive/exclusive notions and identity markers in one category' (Janmaat, 2006). Empirical research findings suggest that most states and nations contain both ethnic and civic components (Schulman, 2002).…”

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National Identity and Patriotism among Russian Youth: Representations, Feelings and Actions

Omelchenko¹,

Maximova²,

Noyanzina³

et al. 2015

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This article is based on data of empirical research in four border regions of Russia. We try to reveal the new trends in youth's national identity through the analysis of social identifications, interpretations of patriotism and patriotic actions. We conclude that youth's national identity comprises traditional and modern traits, proving its nature as social construct, reproduced and shaped trough public political discourse and everyday practices. While national civic identification takes the central place in the youth identification hierarchy, young people feel more cosmopolitan than elderly people and give a special meaning to their own cultural and ethno-confessional identities. Their patriotic representations are transformed under worldwide mobility and influence of politically oriented actions; they diverge from understanding of patriotism of other generations, the result is the lower self-evaluation of patriotic feelings, which have become more abstract and less associated with concrete actions and deeds.

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“…national identity and nationalism), perceptions of socio-economic threat, and exclusionary attitudes towards immigrants at the micro-level of analysis has been developed within a quantitative perspective (see e.g. Jones 2000; Jones and Smith 2001a,b;Lewin-Epstein and Levanon 2005;Janmaat 2006;Blank and Schmidt 2003). Few studies have used qualitative data to study perceptions and feelings of national attachments (Lister et al 2003;Miller-Idriss 2006), and the ways these perceptions shape attitudes towards migrants.…”

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