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Making Nations Great Again: National Narcissism and the Left, the Right, and the Extreme in the European Context Cover

Making Nations Great Again: National Narcissism and the Left, the Right, and the Extreme in the European Context

International Review of Social Psychology
Volume 37 (2024): Issue 1
By: Marina Maglić,  Tomislav Pavlović and  Renata Franc  
Open Access
|Feb 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.844 | Journal eISSN: 2397-8570
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 29, 2023
Accepted on: Jan 23, 2024
Published on: Feb 12, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
collective narcissism,
national narcissism,
political extremity,
political ideology,
political orientation,
Europe,
cross-national analyses

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