Contextual effects on subjective national identity and nationalist vote in Catalonia
Barceló Soler, Joan
Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya

Imprint: Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya) 2012
Description: 26 p.
Abstract: The important inflow of foreign population to western countries has boosted the study of acculturation processes among scholars in the last decades. By using the case of Catalonia, a receiver region of international and national migration since the fifties, this paper seeks to intersect a classic acculturation model and a newly reemerging literature in political science on contextual determinants on individual behavior. Does the context matters for understanding individual's subjective national identity and, therefore, its voting behavior? Multilevel models show that environment matters. Percentage of Spain-born population in the town is statistically significant to account for variance in the subjective national identity and nationalist vote, even after controlling for age, sex, origin, language and left - right orientation and other contextual factors. This conclusion invites researchers not to underestimate the direct effect of the environment on individual outcomes such as feelings of belonging and vote orientation in contexts of rival identities.
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Language: Català
Series: Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Working papers
Series: Working papers (Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya)) ; 311
Document: Working paper
Subject: Característiques nacionals catalanes ; Vot ; Catalunya ; Aculturació



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