Global citizenship, anyone? cosmopolitanism, privilege and public opinion

This paper utilises the World Values Survey (WVS) and the Inter-university Survey on Allegiance (ISA) in order to evaluate the claim that cosmopolitanism is elitist. Variants of this claim include: (1) “Cosmopolitanism appeals to almost no one but the rationalist philosophers who articulate it”, (2) “Cosmopolitanism is systematically likely to appeal to privileged individuals”, and (3) “Cosmopolitanism is systematically likely to appeal to...