National Identity, Citizenship and Populism: Political, Economic and Measurement Issues

Abstract

National Identity, Citizenship and Populism are important topics to understand politics, economy, and society. While there is research from a country level perspective, there are fewer opportunities to design and conduct a study for comparative research. The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is one of the most important cross-cultural surveys for exploring public attitudes, including role of governance, national identity, citizenship and many other topics across the world and is well-known for its excellence in cross-cultural methodology. In 2023 ISSP will implement a module on national identity and citizenship which will include a set of questions that cover key topics. This panel presents different aspects of how the ISSP 2023 module was developed and how it might be used for scholarly research to understand populism, nationalism, economic anxiety, immigration, globalization, and political trust. The value of the ISSP module is that it can help to analyse populism from a comparative perspective. Also, this panel will explore conceptual and measurement issues associated with the designing of the survey module and the measurement of populism. The panel will feature research on cognitive testing, pre-test data analysis and discussing the relation across key variables. Panellists from US and Europe will share their experiences and lessons learned to reflect on established practices of measuring populism, as well as to suggest new ideas for the future research. Special attention will be given to methodological aspects as well as to exploration of relation between populism and public attitudes towards economic and political issues, the welfare state and nationalism.

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