Country-level Variables and Imagined National Communities within EU-15 Countries

  1. Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez 1
  2. Elena Ferri Fuentevilla 1
  3. Luis Navarro Ardoy 1
  1. 1 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

Journal:
Política y sociedad

ISSN: 1130-8001,  1988-3129

Year of publication: 2017

Issue Title: Estudios críticos organizacionales: hacia una repolitización de los nuevos mundos del trabajo

Volume: 54

Issue: 1

Pages: 271-293

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/POSO.50089 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This study analyses to what extent there are similarities and differences between EU-15 countries with regard to their citizens’ national identities; as well as the influence of country-level variables on identity patterns within clusters of countries. It uses different quantitative techniques and the European Values Study 2008 data release. First, clusters of countries are formed using identity variables. Next, country-level variables dealing with economic performance, politics, history and ethnic-cultural traits are operationalized and tested through categorical regression and discriminant analysis. Results confirm that there are clusters of countries with particular configurations of identity patterns and that country-level variables influence identity.

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Funding information

This investigation has been possible thanks to the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation: I+D+I project “Nacionalismo español: discursos y praxis desde la izquierda (1982-2008)” Ref. CSO2008-01182CPOL.

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