Open this publication in new window or tab >>2020 (English)In: European Political Science Review, ISSN 1755-7739, E-ISSN 1755-7747, Vol. 12, no 4, p. 449-468Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Is it true that national identity increases trust, as liberal nationalists assume? Recent research has studied this side of the ‘national identity argument’ by focusing on conceptions of the content of national identity (often civic or ethnic) and their links to social, rather than political, trust. This paper argues that if we take social identity theory seriously, however, we need to complement this picture by asking how varying the strength – rather than the content – of a person’s sense of their national identity affects both their social and political trust. We break down the different dimensions of national identity, hypothesising and empirically verifying that there are divergent links from national attachment, national pride, and national chauvinism to social and political trust. We do so with data from the US (GSS) and the Netherlands (LISS), thus expanding current knowledge of national identity and trust to a highly relevant yet neglected European case.
Keywords
national identity, trust, liberal nationalism, national attachment, social identity theory
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Research subject
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-409579 (URN)10.1017/S1755773920000211 (DOI)000575822400003 ()
2020-04-242020-04-242020-12-11Bibliographically approved