Nationalism and Its Logical Foundations

✍ Scribed by Amílcar Antonio Barreto

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contends that there is a fundamental logic underlying the participation of non-elites in the nationalist enterprise.  In order to understand this logic we must cast aside the standard myopia ingrained in most Rational Choice analysis.  Those blinders restrict the realm of payoffs to the pursuit of tangible goods and incorrectly assume that all group members — elites and non-elites alike — pursue the same payoffs.  We cannot understand the true nature of nationalist movements until we take into account that elite and mass strata have different motivations for supporting the same cause.  There is an elite calculus and a non-elite strategy simultaneously operating under the aegis of an ethnically defined and supposedly unitary operation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Nationalism from Three Directions......Page 22
2 Rationality’s Janus-like Nature......Page 46
3 Modeling Social and Material Recompense......Page 72
4 Ode to a Hero......Page 92
5 Duty, Honor, and the Supreme Sacrifice......Page 118
Conclusion......Page 142
Notes......Page 148
Bibliography......Page 176
B......Page 194
E......Page 195
H......Page 196
L......Page 197
P......Page 198
R......Page 199
T......Page 200
Z......Page 201