Diversionary Nationalism: Economic Inequality and the Formation of National Pride

Solt, Frederick

doi:10.1017/s002238161100048x

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“…Among them is the content of political discourse, as shown by Li & Brewer's (2004) study of reactions to the 9/11 attacks: Appeals for national unity generally increased national identification, but the latter produced out-group hostility only when the appeals were framed in a culturally essentialist manner [cf. Solt (2011) on diversionary nationalism during periods of economic inequality]. This relationship is also likely to vary across countries, with more ascriptive citizenship regimes (Ariely 2012a) and norms of national membership (Pehrson et al 2009) producing tighter coupling between attachment and xenophobia.…”

Section: The Nation In Everyday Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Nationalism in Settled Times

2016

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Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. This article proposes to shift the focus of this scholarly field toward the study of nationalism not only as a political project but also as a cognitive, affective, and discursive category deployed in daily practice. Integrating insights from work on banal and everyday nationalism, collective rituals, national identity, and commemorative struggles with survey-based findings from political psychology, I demonstrate that meanings attached to the nation vary within and across populations as well as over time, with important implications for microinteraction and for political beliefs and behavior, including support for exclusionary policies and authoritarian politics. I conclude by suggesting how new developments in methods of data collection and analysis can inform future research on this topic.

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Section: The Nation In Everyday Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Nationalism in Settled Times

2016

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“…I measure Income inequality as a Gini coefficient based on household market (pretax, pretransfer) income, which ranges from 0 to 100. These data are available for 153 countries starting in 1960 (Solt 2009). 20 The weighted global s score, developed by Signorino and Ritter (1999).…”

Section: Income Inequalitymentioning

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War and Revenge: Explaining Conflict Initiation by Democracies

Stein

2015

Am Polit Sci Rev

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W hile we know much about what differentiates the conflict behavior of democracies from autocracies, we know relatively little about why some democracies are more belligerent than others. In contrast to existing studies, I argue that it is public opinion and not institutions that drives these differences. All democratic leaders have an incentive to take public opinion into account, but public opinion is not the same everywhere. Individuals' attitudes towards war are shaped by core beliefs about revenge, which vary across countries. Leaders with more vengeful populations will be more likely to initiate conflicts because they generate popular support for war more effectively. Using retention of capital punishment as a proxy for broad endorsement of revenge, I find that democracies that have retained the death penalty for longer periods of time are significantly more likely to initiate conflicts. This research has important implications for existing theories of democracy and war.

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“…I am aware of no WIID-based study taking this approach, but see Layte's (2012) study of the relationship between individuals' mental health and inequality using European data. SWIID is used as the source of inequality data in Solt's (2011) analysis of the relationship between individuals' nationalist sentiments and their country's economic inequality.…”

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World income inequality databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID

2015

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This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality -the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking crossnational data with global coverage for relatively long time periods. Against these undoubted benefits must be set costs arising from lack of data comparability and quality and also, in the case of SWIID, questions about its imputation model. WIID and SWIID users need to recognize this benefit-cost trade-off and ensure their substantive conclusions are robust to potential data problems. I provide detailed description of the nature and contents of both sources plus illustrative regression analysis. From a data issues perspective, I recommend WIID over SWIID, though my support for use of WIID is conditional.JEL codes: C81, C82, D31

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Diversionary Nationalism: Economic Inequality and the Formation of National Pride

Cited by 110 publications

References 39 publications

Nationalism in Settled Times

Nationalism in Settled Times

War and Revenge: Explaining Conflict Initiation by Democracies

World income inequality databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID

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