Anja Neundorf: Nostalgia and the threat to democracy
Hovedinnhold
Anja Neundorf, professor ved University of Glasgow, vil holde et kort foredrag om Nostalgia and the threat to democracy.
Is nostalgia a threat to democracy? This study is motivated by the observation that contemporary autocrats evoke memories of past regimes to gather support, to justify their rule and to glorify these non-democratic times. In this project, we aim to test the effects of different types of nostalgia on attitudes towards democracy and populism. More specifically, we argue that yearning for a non-liberal past paves the way for non-liberal attitudes today. However, we still do not fully understand how nostalgia is linked to democratic decay. This project will hence focus on two specific questions: 1) Who is reacting to nostalgia and 2) what are the mechanisms that connect nostalgia for specific regime experiences and political attitudes today? To test this argument, we will conduct a series of online survey experiments fielded in six different countries: The UK, Turkey, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain and Brazil. In each country about 1,800 respondents are recruited using Facebook advertisement. In the survey experiments, a group of randomly selected respondents is primed on a democratic or authoritarian period of each country. Preliminary results confirm that the salience of authoritarian nostalgia has a negative impact on democratic and populist attitudes.
Anja Neundorf er professor i politikk og forskningsmetoder ved School of Social and Political Sciences ved University of Glasgow. Hun jobber for tiden med et ERC Consolidator Grant "Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it" (DEMED). Hun har tidligere jobbet ved University of Nottingham (2013-2019) og Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2010-2012). Hun har doktorgraden sin fra University of Essex (2010). Hennes forsknings- og undervisningsinteresser ligger i skjæringspunktet mellom politisk atferd, forskningsmetoder og sammenliknende politikk.
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