Measuring (sub)national identities in surveys. Some – new – lessons from Belgium

At the 2015 edition of the conference Belgium: The State of the Federation, we started to explore the tricky question of how to measure (sub)national identities in surveys and wondered whether different measurements lead to different results. Five years later, we go back to this question with some more data from Belgium, not only from voter surveys but also from MPs surveys. Indeed, in Belgium, as in many so-called multinational countries, there is a tradition of measuring national and subnational identities, but it is an uneasy business as it relies on several assumptions on what’s behind i... Mehr ...