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Making Identity Count - Building a National Identity Database (Hardcover)
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Making Identity Count - Building a National Identity Database (Hardcover)
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Constructivism, despite being one of the three main streams of IR
theory, along with realism and liberalism, is rarely, if ever,
tested in large-n quantitative work. Constructivists almost
unanimously eschew quantitative approaches, assuming that variables
of interest to constructivists, defy quantification. Quantitative
scholars mostly ignore constructivist variables as too fuzzy and
vague. And the rare instances in which quantitative scholars have
operationalized identity as a variable, they have unfortunately
realized all the constructivists' worst fears about reducing
national identity to a single measure, such as language, religion,
or ethnicity, thereby violating one of the foundational assumptions
of constructivism: intersubjectivity. Making Identity Count
presents a new method for the recovery of national identity,
applies the method in 9 country cases, and draws conclusions from
the empirical evidence for hegemonic transitions and a variety of
quantitative theories of identity. Ted Hopf and Bentley B. Allan
make the constructivist variable of national identity a valid
measure that can be used by large-n International Relations
scholars in a variety of ways. They lay out what is wrong with how
identity has been conceptualized, operationalized and measured in
quantitative IR so far and specify a methodological approach that
allows scholars to recover the predominant national identities of
states in a more valid and systematic fashion. The book includes
"national identity reports" on China, the US, UK, Germany, France,
Brazil, Japan, and India to both test the authors' method and
demonstrate the promise of the approach. Hopf and Allan use these
data to test a constructivist hypothesis about the future of
Western neoliberal democratic hegemony. Finally, the book concludes
with an assessment of the method, including areas of possible
improvement, as well as a description of what an intersubjective
national identity data base of great powers from 1810-2010 could
mean for IR scholarship.
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