Patterns of Nationalism in Post-Soviet States

Stage Two. Varieties of Nationalist Experience

Marharyta Fabrykant

Pushkin2011

Theoretical BackgroundFriedrich Meinecke:

Kulturnation vs. StaatsnationHans Kohn:

Eastern vs. Western nationalismAnthony D. Smith:

ethnic vs. civic nationalism

+V217 (ancestry important for citizenship)

+V218 (birthplace important for citizenship)

External Nationality (EN) - 15.377%

- V37 (immigrants/foreign workers as undesirable neighbors)

- V45 (preferential employment for conational)

- V124 (restrictive and exclusive immigrant policy)

- V130 (mistrust to people of another nationality)

- V221 (negative attitude towards ethnic diversity)

Multiculturalism (MC) - 13.290 %

+ V75 (seeing oneself as a part of one’s nation)

+ V209 (readiness to fight for one’s nation)

+ V212 (pride of one’s national identity)

National Commitment (NC) - 12.356%,

+ V219 (adopting a country’s customs important for citizenship)

+ V220 (abiding by a country’s laws important for citizenship)

Internal Nationality (IN) - 11.888 %

Types of Nationalism

Individual values Clusterby cluster

Ascribed Nationalism (28)Cautious Nationalism (1)Devoted Nationalism (6)Indifferent Nationalism (3)Xenophobic NBationalism (2)

Types of Nationalism

Multilevel Regression Coefficients

  Age Education IncomeSocial Class Subjective

EN 0,328 -0,397 --- -0,321

MC -0,472 0,678 0,474 0,954

NC 0,665 --- 0,178 0,437

IN 0,934 --- --- ---

Multilevel Regression Coefficients

 Interest in Politics

Political Self-positioning

Estimation of Democracy

EN -0,287 0,122 -0,867

MC 0,832 -0,274 1,227

NC 1,191 0,392 1,566

IN --- --- 1,405

Multilevel Regression Coefficients

 Meaning of Life Happiness Health Autonomy (Post)Materialism

EN --- --- --- -0,393 -0,554

MC 0,429 1,143 1,039 0,839 1,662

NC 0,689 1,420 0,708 -0,358 -0,569

IN --- 0,454 --- -0,245 -0,553

Conditioned Effects of (Post)Materialism

  Cautious Ascribed Devoted Indifferent Xenophobic

EN --- -0,411 -0,789 -1,167 -1,546

Change in NC between 1990 and 2005 (by type of nationalism)

Country 2005 1995 2005 rating 1990 rating Change of rating from 1990 to 2005

South Korea 0,5427 -1,0223 23 1 -22

Brazil 0,5881 -0,2753 25 3 -22

Chile 0,2684 -0,2623 18 4 -14

Uruguay 0,2274 -0,5966 15 2 -13

Switzerland 0,3885 0,1605 21 10 -11

Spain 0,3696 0,3101 20 15 -5

Moldova 0,5793 0,4023 24 20 -4

South Africa -0,0067 0,0396 10 7 -3

Sweden -0,047 -0,0019 8 6 -2

USA -0,0336 0,124 9 8 -1

East Germany 1,2054 0,8954 27 26 -1

West Germany 0,9803 0,9507 26 27 1

Slovenia 0,0308 0,3055 11 13 2

India -0,3979 -0,2268 2 5 3

Romania 0,3337 0,4967 19 22 3

Ukraine 0,4038 0,8575 22 25 3

Australia 0,0692 0,337 12 16 4

China 0,1587 0,3421 13 17 4

Mexico -0,1025 0,2744 7 12 5

Argentina 0,2562 0,4893 16 21 5

Norway -0,3465 0,2056 4 11 7

Bulgaria 0,2678 0,5635 17 24 7

Turkey -0,4233 0,1411 1 9 8

Serbia 0,1932 0,5119 14 23 9

Georgia -0,3575 0,3066 3 14 11

Finland -0,332 0,3569 5 18 13

Poland -0,1213 0,3747 6 19 13

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