Eric P. Kaufmann
Birkbeck, University of London
114 Papers
690 Citations
Eric P. Kaufmann is an academic researcher from Birkbeck, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnic group & Nationalism. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 109 publications. Previous affiliations of Eric P. Kaufmann include University of London & London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Populism and nationalism in a comparative perspective: a scholarly exchange
Abstract: The purpose of the Exchange feature is to publish discussions that engage, advance
and initiate new debates in the study of nations and nationalism. This Exchange
article is on the subject of ‘Populism and Nationalism’. Each contributor addresses the
following four questions on the subject: (1) What is populism and what role does it
play within the context of democratic politics? (2) Does populism cut across left-right
lines? (3) What is the relationship between nationalism and populism? (4) Are
contemporary populist movements across Europe and the West comparable? Our aim
is to generate a thought- provoking conversation with regards to the rise of populism
in Europe and the West.
Levels or changes?: Ethnic context, immigration and the UK Independence Party vote
TL;DR: This paper argued that high levels of established ethnic minorities reduce opposition to immigration and support for UKIP among white Britons, and that more rapid ethnic changes increase opposition to immigrants and support of UKIP.
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“White Flight” or positive contact? Local diversity and attitudes to immigration in Britain
Eric P. Kaufmann,Gareth Harris +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used 20 years of large-scale geocoded British longitudinal data and found only limited evidence of selection effects associated with White flight, with anti-immigrant Whites exiting diverse areas but remaining within wider geographies as radicalized opponents of immigration.
The end of secularization in Europe? A socio-demographic perspective
TL;DR: The authors used data from the European Values Surveys and European Social Survey for the period 1981-2008 to establish basic trends in religious attendance and belief across the 10 countries that have been consistently surveyed and found that religious decline is mainly occurring in Catholic European countries and has effectively ceased among post-1945 birth cohorts in six Northwestern European societies where secularization began early.
American exceptionalism reconsidered: Anglo-Saxon ethnogenesis in the “universal” nation, 1776–1850
TL;DR: The authors argues that American nativism cannot be understood without reference to an American national ethnic group whose myth-symbol complex had developed prior to the large-scale immigration of the mid-nineteenth century.