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British National Sentiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

ANTHONY HEATH
Affiliation:
Nuffield College, Oxford
BRIDGET TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Nuffield College, Oxford
LINDSAY BROOK
Affiliation:
The Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, SCPR
ALISON PARK
Affiliation:
The Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, SCPR

Abstract

There has been extensive research on Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalism but little on British nationalism. Analysis of the British electorate shows that British nationalist sentiments cannot be reduced to the conventional left–right and libertarian–authoritarian value dimensions, and constitute a distinct normative dimension in their own right. They are related to attitudes towards Europe, nuclear defence, Scottish devolution and Irish unification. Although by no means as important as the left–right dimension, they are at least as important in contemporary voting behaviour as the libertarian–authoritarian dimension.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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