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Democratic and Autocratic Nation Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2020

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Katie L. Stewart*
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Political Science and International Relations, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: klstewart@knox.edu
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Abstract

There are two main trends in the field of nation-building studies. One subset of the field focuses on democratic nation building, seeking to answer questions of how people can live together in divided societies and presenting institutional recommendations. The other subset examines autocratic nation building, or how those in power utilize nation building to maintain their position of dominance. Scholars examine both types of nation building from above, examining government policies and elite action, and from below, analyzing the practices and emotions of non-elites. While there has been much progress in the field of nation-building studies, I suggest that we focus more on the conceptual differences between democratic and autocratic nation building, address the interactions of elites and non-elites in nation-building practices, and disaggregate analyses to take into account in-country variation in nation building.

Keywords

nation buildingautocracydemocracysymbolic politicsnational identity
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State of the Field
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 49 , Issue 2: Special Issue on Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Identity, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality by Law , March 2021 , pp. 205 - 212
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2020

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