„This Country Is Not for Anyone“: Explanations of Low National Pride in the Czech Republic

0508064 - SOÚ 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Vlachová, Klára
„This Country Is Not for Anyone“: Explanations of Low National Pride in the Czech Republic.
Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity. Roč. 47, č. 6 (2019), s. 1000-1012. ISSN 0090-5992. E-ISSN 1465-3923
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LG12023
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : general national pride * national identity * diffuse political support
OECD category: Political science
Impact factor: 0.728, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/this-country-is-not-for-anyone-explanations-of-low-national-pride-in-the-czech-republic/072F82282C179C66F8FA8C02E346D5B2

National pride is a group-based and sometimes collective emotion that people feel toward their nation-state. It is often measured by the general national pride item in cross-national surveys. Czechs are among those nations whose members express low levels of general national pride in comparison with those of other nations in the European Union. Scholars debate the extent to which general national pride is influenced by social desirability or other identifiable reasons. The goal of this article is to identify the specific reasons that influence general national pride in the Czech Republic. Using data from the October 2015 round of the survey Naše společnost, I examine what makes Czechs proud of their country. Among frequently mentioned reasons for national pride are the country’s beauty, nature, cities, and history, as well as respondents’ family and friends. Results of an ordinal regression analysis based on the European Values Study 2008 data confirm that general national pride is significantly influenced by political interest, confidence in government and satisfaction with the development of democracy, happiness, and social trust.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299012