Explaining the variation in citizens’ attitudes on sovereignty and identity. Specifically, do the distinct ethno-territorial discourses of parties shape popular constructions of these closely connected concepts?

• In Event: Violence, nationalism and voting

Brief Overview

The paper investigates whether, empirically speaking, people’s conceptions of sovereignty and national identity vary measurably depending on the particular territorial and sovereigntist discourses pursued by populist parties.

Authors

• Reinhard C. Heinisch, University of Salzburg, Austria

• Annika Werner, Australian National University

• Marco Foelsch, University of Salzburg