Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics Normative and Empirical Questions

Gina Gustavsson, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University,David Miller, Professor of Political Theory, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Gina Gustavsson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. Her work spans political theory and political psychology, and has been published in Ethnicities, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Political Studies, The European Political Science Review, The Review of Politics, and The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin. She is also the author of a forthcoming book on romantic liberalism. Half-Swedish and half-Estonian, she has always had a keen interest in national identity and immigration.


David Miller is Professor of Political Theory at Nuffield College, Oxford and a Visiting Professor of Law and Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2002. He has written widely on issues of national identity, citizenship, territory, and immigration, attempting throughout to build bridges between political philosophy and the social sciences. His next book will defend the idea of self-determination against its many critics.

Introduction, Gina Gustavsson and David Miller
Part 1: The Nature of National Identity
1. The Coherence of Liberal Nationalism, David Miller
2. National Identity, Pride, and Chauvinism - their Origins and Consequences for Globalization Attitudes, Leonie Huddy and Alessandro del Ponte
Part 2: The Social Effects of National Identity
3. National Attachment - Cohesive, Divisive, or Both? A Reconsideration of the National Identity Argument through the Lens of Social Identity Theory, Gina Gustavsson
4. Does Nationhood Promote Egalitarian Justice? Challenging the National Identity Argument, Nils Holtug
5. Hierarchy, American Identity, and Support for Anti-Poverty Efforts, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Frank Gonzalez and Alison O'Toole
6. 'Solidarity' versus Values as Drivers of Support for Immigrants' Access to Social Benefits, Matthew Wright and Morris Levy
7. Argumentative Contexts of National Identity Definition: Getting Past the Failures of a Universal Ethnic-Civic Dichotomy, Samuel Pehrson
Part 3: The Place of Culture and Religion in Liberal Nationalism
8. Inclusive Identities: The Foundation of Trust in Multicultural Communities', Patti Tamara Lenard
9. Liberal Nationalism and Symbolic Religious Establishment, Cecile Laborde and Sune Laegaard
10. Liberal Nationalism and the Challenge of Essentialism, Margaret Moore
Part 4: Immigrants and Dual Nationals: Double Loyalties and Divided Selves?
11. Beyond National Identity: Liberal Nationalism, Shared Membership and Solidarity, Keith Banting, Allison Harrel, Will Kymlicka, and Rebecca Wallace
12. Dual or Divided Identities? National Identity and Community Values among Immigrants in Denmark and Western Europe, Karen N. Breidahl
13. Where the Heart Is: Liberal Nationalism, Social Trust, and Multiple National Belongings, Lior Erez
14. An Unscientific Postscript, Kwame Anthony Appiah