Exchange on the quantitative measurement of ethnic and national identity

Daniel Bochsler, Elliott Green, Erin Jenne, Harris Mylonas, Andreas Wimmer

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the use of quantitative techniques in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, without, however, a sufficient amount of reflection on how these techniques have contributed to our understanding of ethnic and national identities. As such, in this exchange three sets of authors answer questions about the degree to which it is possible to use quantitative data to measure ethnic and national identities, which types of methods are most suitable in measuring these identities and what the major research findings of this quantitative research are that were not possible using qualitative approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)22-40
Number of pages19
JournalNations and Nationalism
Volume27
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

Keywords

  • ELF
  • census
  • ethnic identity
  • national identity
  • quantitative methods
  • surveys

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