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doi:10.15678/ZP.2018.44.2.01
ZarządzaniePubliczne
PublicGovernance
No.2(44)/2018
ISSN1898-3529
JacekRaciborski,WojciechRafałowski
StateidentityinEuropetoday:Somedeterminants
Abstract
Objectives:ThearticleisaimedatstudyingthedifferentiationofthestrengthofstateidentityinselectedEuropean
countriesandattemptstoexplaintheobservedtendencies.
ResearchDesign&Methods:TheempiricalpartisbaseduponthreewavesoftheInternationalSocialSurveyProgramme
entitled4NationalIdentity’.
Findings:TheresultsshowthatstateidentitiesinWesternEuropeancountriesarewell-developed.Central/Eastern
EuropeansocietiesarecharacterisedbylowerlevelsofstateidentitythanWesternEuropeanones.Weattributethis
phenomenontolegaciesofthepast,especiallythetomanycenturiesofeconomicunderdevelopmentoftheregionthat
wasenhancedincreasedbycommunismandlowlevelsofsocialcapitalinEasternEuropeansocieties.
Contribution:ThisstudylinksthestateidentityofcitizensofEuropeancountrieswiththeirlivingconditionsandpast
legacies.
ArticleClassification:Researcharticle
Keywords:stateidentity,nationalidentity,socialcapital,communistlegacy,post-communistcountries
JELclassification:H1,H4,P3,P5
Introduction
Therearegroupidentities.Amongthem
nationalidentitiesareparticularlystrongandex-
pansionary.NationalidentitywasborninEurope
asaneffectofindustrialandnationalrevolutions
andhaseversincebeenverystronglybound
togetherwithcivicidentity(Habermas,1994).
Asaconsequencecitizenshiphasacquired
adoublestatus.Itindicatesthelegalstatusofan
JacekRaciborski
WojciechRafałowski
InstituteofSociology
UniversityofWarsaw
ul.Karowa18
00-927Warszawa
Poland
raciborkij@uw.edu.pl
rafalowskiw@is.uw.edu.pl
individual,itsmainfeaturebeingtheassignment
oftheindividualtoaparticularcountry(political
status).Italsosignifiesthestateofappurtenanceto
aculturally-definednation.Thisbelongingresults
inamentalbondoftheindividualtothegroupthat
constitutesthenation-state.However,particular
Europeansocietiesmayvarybythesignificance
oftheculturalandpoliticaldimensionsinbuilding
theirnationalidentity.GerardDelantyiswilling
torecognisetheprimacyoftheculturalfactor,
4thepoliticalidentityoftheindividualisshapedless
byhisorherrelationtothestate,asanapparatus
ofpower,thantothenationasamoralcommunity’
(Delanty,1995,p.161).Thisissueisanempirical
onewhichweraiseinafurtherpartofthisarticle.
InparticularEuropeancountriesthestate-building
andnation-buildingprocessesproceededdifferently,
whichmayaffectthestrengthofthecivicand
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