Eric M. Uslaner is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park. He the author of eleven books, including The Historical Roots of Corruption (2017), The Moral Foundations of Trust (2002), Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law (2010), Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion (2012), and approximately 200 articles. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust (Oxford, 2018). He has been a consultant to the United Nations Human Development Fund and the Taihe Institute of Beijing, China. He is also a Research Associate for the Gallup Organization and the co-editor with Nils Holtug of National Identity and Social Cohesion (2021) and with Chong-Min Kim, Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia (2019).

• Preface


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: The United States


• Chapter 3: The United Kingdom


• Chapter 4: France


• Chapter 5: Germany and Austria


• Chapter 6: Sweden


• Chapter 7: Central and Eastern Europe


• Chapter 8: Israel and Taiwan


• Chapter 9: Deservingness


• Chapter 10: Reprise


• References


• Index

In National Identity and Partisan Polarization, Eric M. Uslaner examines how national identity has become a central issue in political and social life across the world. Questions of identity--who should be counted as a "true member" of a society and who deserves assistance from the government--have displaced other social and economic issues across nations in many countries. This study considers the role of identity theoretically and in the United State, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Israel, and Taiwan.