Intergroup Contact Versus Competitive Threat
Does Immigration Change Immigration Votes? Evidence From Switzerland Using Objective Municipality‐Level Panel Data From 2010 to 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7168178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Mader (0000-0003-3400-4715, Institute of Sociology University of Bern Bern Switzerland, corresponding author), Sarah Kuhn (Institute of Sociology University of Bern Bern Switzerland), Matthias Grossrieder (Institute of Sociology University of Bern Bern Switzerland) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4941 • E-ISSN: 1540-6237 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ssqu.13477 |
| OpenAlex | W4405675356 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Objective Gordon Allport's intergroup contact hypothesis and Herbert Blumer's competitive threat hypothesis have attracted a lot of attention in the social sciences and have influenced integration policies around the world. A valuable study within this field is of Brunner and Kuhn. Brunner and Kuhn investigated the causal effect of immigration on natives’ attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland using objective municipality‐level panel data between 1970 and 2010 following an instrumental variable approach. In this article, we conceptually replicate and update the study of Brunner and Kuhn addressing two analytical limitations. Methods We use annual Swiss municipality‐level panel data on the culturally similar and culturally different immigrant share as well as the results of national votes on immigration policies from 2010 to 2020 applying fixed effects with individual slopes panel regression models. Results and conclusion Our analysis confirms the notion that cultural competitive threat may be at work for culturally different migrants in Switzerland. Additionally, intergroup contact seems to foster immigration‐friendly attitudes
Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Immigration · Panel data · Political science · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference
Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners’ location choices
Intergroup contact research in the 21st century
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Perceptions and misperceptions
Direct and indirect predictors of opposition to immigration in Europe
A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory
Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values
Fixed Effects Individual Slopes
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |