Careless whisper
Political elite discourses activate national identities for far‐right voting preferences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6306752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonia C May (0000-0002-4979-0977, Department of Survey Data Curation GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Cologne Germany, corresponding author), C S Czymara (0000-0002-9535-3559, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Tel‐Aviv University Tel‐Aviv Israel) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-109 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nana.12985 |
| OpenAlex | W4386545957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 84 |
While exclusionary national identities are widespread among Europeans, relatively few people vote for the far right in most countries. Thus, an exclusionary identity in many cases does not lead to voting for the most nativist types of parties. We explain this empirical puzzle by showing that these identities need to be activated to become behaviourally relevant. To this end, we analyse longitudinal comparative data of over 135,000 individuals across more than 26 years and 26 countries combining different survey programmes and manifesto data. We use latent class analysis to show that over half of respondents hold exclusionary conceptions of nationhood. Moreover, this type of national identity predicts voting far right. Using multi‐level modelling and within‐country estimators, we further demonstrate that this relationship is significantly stronger when a country's political elites across all parties become more exclusionary. Taking the activation hypothesis to the test in a European context, we conclude that the effect of national identity is conditional on its prior activation
Context (archaeology · Elite · Far right · Geography · Identity (music · Latent class model · Manifesto · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |