Nationalism and income inequality are two of the most pressing economic and political issues of the time. This paper establishes how these two variables are interconnected. A theoretical model combines a two-dimensional policy space with social identification to explain the optimal nationalism...

This paper studies how the political elite uses nationalism as a tool for altering the preferences of the voting public. A model is designed to explain how a change in income inequality motivates political parties to use nationalism. The model concludes that increased income inequality...