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National Development Generates National Identities

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  • Tea Golob
  • Matej Makarovič
  • Jana Suklan

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The purpose of the article is to test the relationship between national identities and modernisation. We test the hypotheses that not all forms of identity are equally compatible with modernisation as measured by Human Development Index. The less developed societies are characterised by strong ascribed national identities based on birth, territory and religion, but also by strong voluntarist identities based on civic features selected and/or achieved by an individual. While the former decreases with further modernisation, the latter may either decrease or remain at high levels and coexist with instrumental supranational identifications, typical for the most developed countries. The results, which are also confirmed by multilevel regression models, thus demonstrate that increasing modernisation in terms of development contributes to the shifts from classical, especially ascribed, identities towards instrumental identifications. These findings are particularly relevant in the turbulent times increasingly dominated by the hardly predictable effects of the recent mass migrations.

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  • Tea Golob & Matej Makarovič & Jana Suklan, 2016. "National Development Generates National Identities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(2), pages 1-14, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0146584
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146584
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    1. Salmon-Letelier, Marlana, 2022. "The shaping of national identity in diverse Nigerian secondary schools," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).

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