Replication Data for: Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey

Replication data for the paper entitled "Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey" ABSTRACT This article aims to scrutinize the relationship between collective nostalgia and populism. Different populist figures utilize nostalgia by referring to the good old, glorious days of their country and reflecting their resentment against the elites and establishment. Populists instrumentalize nostalgia for constituting their populist heartland, which is a retrospectively constructed utopia on an abandoned but undead past. By using two original datasets from Turkey, this study first analyzes whether collective nostalgia characterizes populist attitudes of the electorate. The results illustrate that collective nostalgia has a significantly positive relationship with populist attitudes even after controlling for various independent variables, including religiosity, partisanship, satisfaction with life, and Euroskepticism. Secondly, this study tests whether nostalgic messages affect populist attitudes with an online survey experiment. The results indicate that Ottoman nostalgia paves the way for increasing populist attitudes. Kemalist nostalgia, on the other hand, has a weak direct effect on populist attitudes, but its effect disappears when controlled with party preference.

题为"怀旧政治与民粹主义：来自土耳其的实证证据"的论文的复现数据集
摘要 本文旨在细致考察集体怀旧（collective nostalgia）与民粹主义（populism）之间的关联。各类民粹主义人物借由援引本国往昔光辉岁月，并抒发对精英与建制派的不满，以此利用怀旧情绪。民粹主义者将怀旧情绪工具化，以构建其民粹主义核心阵地——这是一种基于被弃置却仍存续的过往所回溯建构的乌托邦。本研究依托两份源自土耳其的原创数据集，首先分析集体怀旧是否能刻画选民的民粹主义态度。研究结果显示，即便在控制宗教虔诚度、党派认同、生活满意度以及疑欧主义（Euroskepticism）等多项自变量后，集体怀旧与民粹主义态度仍呈现显著的正向关联。其次，本研究通过线上调查实验，检验怀旧式信息是否会对民粹主义态度产生影响。结果表明，奥斯曼怀旧（Ottoman nostalgia）情绪能够助推民粹主义态度的强化。而凯末尔主义怀旧（Kemalist nostalgia）情绪对民粹主义态度仅存在微弱的直接影响，且在纳入党派偏好进行控制后，该影响便不复存在。