Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Many scholars have drawn attention to the growing influence of nationalist ideology within Latvian politics in recent years. The causes behind this nationalist turn remain disputed. This article studies this process through analyzing four integration policy documents, followed by an examination of different plausible hypotheses explaining the nationalist turn. The author compares two popular explanations – identified as the Potemkin pluralism hypothesis and the external threat hypothesis. Lastly, the author proposes a third hypothesis, the ethnic party system hypothesis, in order to further emphasize the role of the Latvian party system in shaping the state’s increasingly nationalist policy output.
Source: Journal of Baltic Studies
Author: Gustav Lundberg
Institution: Södertörn University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4417000392