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National Identity and Social Cohesion (Hardcover)
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National Identity and Social Cohesion (Hardcover)
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National identity plays an increasingly important role in Western,
liberal democracies. Thus, national identities are experienced as
threatened by immigration and diversity and restrictions on
immigration and nation-building policies are being implemented in
response. Specifically, it has been suggested that diversity drives
down social cohesion and thus the ties that bind people together in
stable, democratic welfare states. This book addresses challenges
to stable liberal democratic institutions and to social cohesion
resulting from immigration and diversity. Thus, immigration has
been considered an important factor in political polarization and
political responses and movements. National identity plays a
significant role both as something that, according to some, is
threatened by diversity and as something to which populist
politicians positively appeal in their justification of restrictive
immigration policies and efforts towards nation-building. In some
cases, political leaders have framed minorities as a threat to the
nation state warranting a departure from liberal democratic
institutions. This book considers the role of national identity in
contemporary societies and in particular its significance for
social cohesion. What role does national identity play for
political polarization? Do national identities mediate/moderate the
impact of diversity on social cohesion, including trust and
solidarity? Has identity politics contributed to a politics of
resentment and can more inclusive national identities serve to
diminish polarization? In the book, these and other questions about
the relation between national identity, belonging and social
cohesion are considered by a number of the most prominent scholars
in the field.
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