May, Antonia CarolinAntonia CarolinMay2024-12-092024-12-092024https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/105188Kumultative Dissertation, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2024Bridging research on national identity, social psychology, and voting literature, this cumulative dissertation investigates the effect of national identity on political preferences and political behaviour. Thereby, two key aspects of this relationship at the individual level are focused: the overall relationship between national identity and political preferences, and the translation of this relationship into political behaviour. Due to the lack of consensus in national identity research on how to define and measure national identity, as well as on which dimension(s) of national identity best explains far-right attraction, addressing the question of who is attracted to or repelled by far-right positions inevitably requires first addressing this conceptual-methodological gap in national identity research. To address these questions, the research programme comprises of six main areas: (i) Proposing a new person-centred approach to identify how citizens conceptualise their national in-group, while (ii) ad-dressing national identity’s multidimensionality and (iii) investigating the relationship between the individual dimensions of national identity and political preferences. Build-ing on the findings of these first three steps, the research programme also covers (iv) examining whether national identity builds the breeding ground for voting decisions and (v) investigating the temporality of the overall relationship between national identity and voting. Furthermore, the latter includes (vi) testing for the role of political elite discours-es and mass media reporting, while testing for both salience and directed messages in the information environment.engNational IdentityIdentity ActivationPolitical PsychologyPolitical CommunicationVotingFar-right Voting320doctoralthesisurn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-1051880