Roula Nezi, from the University of Surrey, presented a paper with the following abstract:
“Voters and parties hold different views on who belong to the nation and to Europe. Previous research shows that radical left parties focus on the political, economic, and cultural integration of marginalized groups, while they promote social and cultural diversity. In contrast, radical right parties are exclusionary and focus on the ethnic homogeneity of the nation by excluding those perceived as non-native. While nationalism has been studied extensively at the party level, we know relatively little about voters’ self-understanding of nationalism and Europeanism and how it affects their level of support for radical parties. In this article, we use survey data from the latest wave of the European Values Study, and we employ a multilevel latent class analysis to identify varieties of nationalism and Europeanism in Europe and they affect the support for radical parties. Our results thus make important contribution to the study of nationalism as well as to the study of voting behaviour in a comparative European perspective.”
