Javier Carbonell

Javier Carbonell is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh where he studies mainstream parties’ response to the rise of the far-right. He co-created and co-convenes the course "Transdisciplinary approaches to Inequality" at Sciences Po. He is a Steering Committee member of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), an Associate of LSE IDEAS and the editor of LSE Eurocrisis Blog. He completed an MSc in International Relations at the LSE and is also a member of the Global Populist Parties Dataset (LSE Systemic Risk Centre) and the New Nationalism Project (University of Toronto) research groups.

Research interests

National identity, ethnic conflict, political parties, far-right, mainstream parties, inequality. 

Research project pursued at the CEE

The politicisation of globalisation: How are mainstream parties responding to the rise of far-right nationalism?
Two main research questions underpin the project. First, how do mainstream parties articulate national identity in response to the far-right? The project aims to create the first dataset that systematises the study of political rhetoric on national identity in Europe. The dataset will be constructed in a way that can be used independently or as an addition to widely used databases.

Second, what explains mainstream parties’ strategic choices and their variation across time, country and ideology? By running statistical analyses and using process tracing, I will examine different explanatory variables such as party family affiliation, individual attitudes regarding regional, national and international identifications, presence of minority nationalist parties and transnational interactions between parties.

The case studies of the project are France, the UK and Spain and the time frame of the analysis starts with the economic crisis of 2008.

To know more

javier.carbonell@sciencespo.fr

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