in nationalist and patriotic attitudes as determinants of these policy preferences. In addition, the paper explores how a major event or shock, specifically the attacks of 911, differentially impacted both nationalistic and patriotic attitudes, and in turn, attitudes toward trade and immigration policies.
The project is unique in that it uses individual survey data beginning in 1995. In this way some inferences can be drawn regarding important events, such as the attacks of 911. Factor analysis will be applied to the survey data to develop the constructs of nationalistic and patriotic attitudes. The National Identity surveys are unique in that they were pretested for these constructs and, as a result, these specific constructs are
now accepted in the literature. Multi-level discrete-choice techniques will serve as the primary econometric model. Based on theoretical literature, it is expected that patriotic attitudes – which deal with national pride – are not likely to significantly affect individual preferences toward trade and immigration policies. Nationalism, in contrast, which focuses on the superiority of one’s country are likely to reduce one’s preferences toward policies that expand international trade and immigration. An event, such as 911, is likely to heighten both attitudes.