This article briefly presents the SCANPUB project, devoted to the comparative study of public discourse on immigration in Scandinavia from 1970 to 2016, from which this issue of Javnost/The Public stems. Its emphasis is on a discussion of the terms “nation” and “nationalism,” particularly the notion of “methodological nationalism” in relation to the project. SCANPUB is not least about how the public sphere in liberal democracies handles large, complex issues over time, and the article thus deals with relatively recent contributions to the theory of the public sphere, concluding with a turn toward deliberative systems theory. Some preliminary empirical results are reported and references are made to the other articles in this issue.

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斯堪的那维亚关于移民的公共话语比较：一些背景说明和初步结果

本文简要介绍了SCANPUB项目，该项目致力于对1970年至2016年期间斯堪的纳维亚半岛关于移民的公共话语进行比较研究，从此一刊Javnost / The Public便源于此。它的重点是讨论“民族”和“民族主义”，特别是与项目有关的“方法论民族主义”的概念。SCANPUB不仅关注自由民主制国家的公共领域如何随着时间的推移处理大型，复杂的问题，因此本文讨论了对公共领域理论的相对较新的贡献，最后转向了审议系统理论。报告了一些初步的经验结果，并参考了本期的其他文章。