Evaluación externa del artículo. Vol. 17 N.1
Migrants and Patria. The new imagined community of the radical left in superdiverse areas in Spain
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Reviewer A:
Please, comment on the most relevant aspects (positive points and areas to improve) of the reviewed article.
Los aspectos positivos más relevantes tienen que ver con la base empírica en la que se apoya para fundamentar sus argumentos respecto al tema objeto de investigación, diferenciando claramente el populismo de izquierda respecto al populismo de la extrema derecha en relación con la inmigración.
Would you suggest any changes or make any recommendations to improve the quality of the article?
Aunque no es el tema principal de estudio, considero que falta en la atribución al concepto de Patria por parte de Podemos una referencia a cómo aborda la inclusión de la realidad plurinacional dentro de ese mismo concepto. De esta forma, el estudio se vería mejorado, ya que esta cuestión es un factor diferencial a tener en cuenta para la credibilidad del concepto de Patria -y, por tanto, del significado en el caso español de "patriotismo constitucional"- con capacidad de inclusión entre una parte del electorado potencial o real de Podemos, especialmente en determinadas Comunidades Autónomas.
Recommendation: Accept Submission
Reviewer B:
Please, comment on the most relevant aspects (positive points and areas to improve) of the reviewed article.
This is a quite well-organized paper with clear cut and innovative conclusions. The author draws on an original Spanish dataset showing that radical left parties (such as Podemos’) supporters are less nationalist than other voters. They hold more open attitudes towards cultural diversity and immigration, and lower levels of Spanishness. Radical left parties, then, operate as antagonistic options to populist radical right (PRR) positions and ethno-centered nationalism of right-populism. Methodologically the author proposes to analyze voter values instead of the analysis of the elites' discourse or strategy. This article title, abstract and keywords point to the core study and conclusions, concerning the level of nationalism and the type of populism among radical left voters. The author addresses skillfully the difficulty of interpreting the ideological discourses in the symbolic-cultural context of the voters themselves to whom the populist mobilization discourse is addressed. The data supporting the conclusions are quite strong: 7,499 face-to-face structured interviews (1,123 of which are supporters of Podemos) carried out on native people 18 years of age or older throughout Spain. Tables correctly summarize the key findings and are referenced along with the whole text. The seven hypotheses are tested and proved correct with a detailed exposition of the data and the regression models. The discussion of the results is quite interesting for drawing and debating theoretical tenets that are quite interesting and relevant, both in academic and empirical-political terms: Radical left parties (at least, Podemos in Spain) attract voters who are less nationalist, preferential and assimilationist than the rest of the parties voters. But caution should be maintained; as the author states: "The conclusions of this study should not be extrapolated to other countries, but integrated into a comparative discussion."
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Recommendation: Accept Submission
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