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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 191p. 39.50.

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This article is published in American Political Science Review.The article was published on 1991-09-01. It has received 2906 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nationalism.

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Friends or foes? migrants and sub-state nationalists in Europe

TL;DR: The authors argue that too much internal diversity may undermine the claim to cultural distinctiveness of sub-state nationalists, and they identify three intervening variables that may influence the legitimacy paradox: civic/ethnic nationalism, degree of political autonomy and party competition.
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Cultural policies and national identity in Catalonia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the general trends regarding identity in Catalan cultural policy and conclude that considerable progress has been made in terms of the promotion of national identity through cultural policies, although some questions remain regarding the social use of the Catalan language and the consumption of cultural products in Catalan.
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Collective memory as the key to national and ethnic identity: The case of Cambodia

TL;DR: The authors argued that collective memory is the key to the common identity of national and ethnic groups in Cambodia, since people there have a collective memory of conflict with Vietnam, and see their historical experience as continuing into the present.
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The patriot game: football's famous 'Tartan Army'.

TL;DR: In the context of the Scottish national football side's supporters, this paper found that popular notions of Scotland can often be incomplete and consideration requires to be given to ethnic, religious and geographical factors in any sociological thesis relating to contemporary Scottish identity.
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Economic Integration and the Politics of Independence

TL;DR: The authors explored the theoretical connections between these two phenomena and developed a framework to assess the implications of international economic integration for nationalist movements in the developed West, finding that a structure of "institutionalised interdependence" is most conducive to nationalist mobilisation in a liberal democratic context, but the impact of economic integration depends largely upon conditions defined by domestic institutional structures.