Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity

Russell F. Farnen is professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He is co-author of Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Education and co-editor of The Politics, Sociology and Economics of Education.

I: Setting the Context: Basic Concepts, Stereotyping, and Authoritarianism; 1: Introduction; 2: Nationality, Ethnicity, Political Socialization, and Public Policy: Some Cross-National Perspectives; 3: National Characteristics and National Stereotypes: A Seven-Nation Comparative Study; 4: A Critical Analysis of Forty Years of Authoritarianism Research: Did Theory Testing Suffer from Cold War Attitudes?; II: Intellectual Currents: Postmodernity, Historicism, the State, and Critical Theories; 5: Coming to Terms with the Past: An International Comparison; 6: The Threshold of Statehood; 7: Are Intellectuals the Keepers of Political Culture? Some Reflections on Politics, Morality, and Reason; III: National Studies: Germany, the US, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine; 8: Ethnic-Cultural Minorities in Germany: Life Chances, Educational Opportunities, Minority Group Identity, and Political Participation; 9: Conditions for Xenophobia in Eastern Germany (formerly the GDR); 10: The Role of the Media in Political Socialization and Attitude Formation toward Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the US; 11: The Jews in Turkey: A Question of National or International Identity; 12: The Status of National Minorities in Contemporary Poland; 13: Some Determinants of Polish Attitudes toward Other Nations during a Period of Transition; 14: An Avalanche of Minorities: Some Unexpected Consequences of Regime Changes on Hungarian Political Culture; 15: The Impact of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationality on the Identity of Disadvantaged Young Hungarians; 16: Central and Eastern European Political Cultures in Transition: From Communism’s Decline to Nationalism’s Triumph; 17: The Influence of Command Style Administration on Ethnic Conflict in Bulgaria; 18: The Development of a Democratic Political Identity in Contemporary Ukrainian Political Culture; 19: Political Competence of the Younger Generation in Western Europe: Creating a Context for Future National and European Political Socialization Research; IV: Conclusions, References, and Author Profiles; 20: Nationalism, Ethnicity, National Identity, and Multiculturalism: Concluding Observations