J Kawalerowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 22258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Kawalerowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawalerowicz |
| SIGNATURE | KAWALEROWICZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8473-8031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labor market competition and xenophobia: A regional analysis of labor market competition in Europe 2010–2020
According to market competition theory, the reasons for negative attitudes toward immigrants can be found in conditions prevailing in the labor market. In countries with rising unemployment and many immigrants, the latter are considered to be a threat to the economic standard of living of the native population. The contribution of this paper is a macro-level analysis of the conditions in 174 regions nested in 19 European countries that may affect…
Late-life divorce and housing changes among older men and women in Sweden
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections
This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Demo…
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain
We use data from a large-scale and nationally representative survey to examine whether there is in Britain a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion. Using six separate measures of social cohesion (generalised trust, volunteering, giving to charity, inter-ethnic friendship, and two neighbourhood cohesion scales) and four measures of social diversity (ethnic fractionalisation, religious fractionalisation, percentage Muslim, and perc…
Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden
This paper explores the relationship between neighbourhood level density of civil society organisations (CSOs), diversity, and deprivation. We compare the UK and Sweden, two countries with different civil society traditions and welfare state regimes. We use data on formal civil society organisations to examine whether diverse neighbourhoods have lower levels of civil society infrastructure. In the UK, contrary to what could be expected from Putna…
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots
Many of the world’s major cities have recently seen large episodes of social unrest. What is the relationship between the changes these cities have experienced, particularly in the form of gentrification, and urban riots? We address this question by examining how local gentrification affected participation in the 2011 London riots. We use an instrumental variable strategy that exploits exogenous variation in the amount of local destruction caused…
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go
After the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the media abounded with stories of people ‘fleeing city‐centres’ and ‘finding refuge in the countryside’. A recurrent argument is that the shift towards remote work has prompted individuals to reconsider their living situation and envisage the possibility of relocating further away from their workplace. The aim of this study is to examine the patterns of out‐migration from the Stockholm inner city duri…
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation
We use data from Understanding Society to evaluate several claims advanced by David Goodhart inThe Road to Somewhere. We show that geographically mobile individuals are indeed more likely to support Remain in the EU referendum, as Goodhart suggests. But Remainers are no different to Leavers in how attached they are to their local community. And people reporting higher level of civic participation or those who are more trusting are actually less s…
Null effects of neighbourhood increases in visible minorities on radical right wing party mobilisation
In many European countries, a growing share of population with immigrant background coincides with the surge in support for radical right parties. In this paper we show how such increases affect radical right candidacy. We use Swedish register data which identifies political candidates. With geocoded data, we match individuals running for the Sweden Democrats to their local neighbourhood contexts, and measure changes in the share of visible minor…
Too many immigrants: How does local diversity contribute to attitudes toward immigration
This paper investigates the link between residential context, perceptions and attitudes toward immigrants by linking data from the British Election Study with Census statistics on composition of electoral constituencies in 2001 and 2011. I consider which type of local diversity is most salient for natives' attitudes by combining information on ethnicity, religion and skills. Second, I look at whether base levels of and changes in local diversity …
Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit
We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the economically left-behinds. The second narrative attributes Brexit to the resurgence of an English nationalism. There is some, albeit not always consistent, evidence that people in relative poverty or those living in areas that have seen greater Chinese import penetratio…
Long-running traditions of racial exclusionism: Is there evidence of historical continuity in local support for extreme right parties in England and Wales
Some regions of the United Kingdom present more fertile grounds for consecutive incarnations of extreme right parties than others. In a study by Goodwin et al., the authors found evidence of the legacy effect, where an earlier cycle of activism by the National Front (NF), an extreme right political party active in the 1970s, emerged as a strong and significant predictor of membership in the British National Party (BNP) three decades later. While …
Anarchy in the UK: Economic Deprivation, Social Disorganization, and Political Grievances in the London Riot of 2011
Thousands rioted in London in August 2011, with the police losing control of parts of the city for four days. This event was not an ethnic riot: Participants were ethnically diverse and did not discriminate in choosing targets for looting or destruction. Whereas the sociological literature has focused on variation in rioting across cities, we examine variation within London by mapping the residential addresses of 1,620 rioters-who were subsequent…
Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit
We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the economically left-behinds. The second narrative attributes Brexit to the resurgence of an English nationalism. There is some, albeit not always consistent, evidence that people in relative poverty or those living in areas that have seen greater Chinese import penetratio…
Too many immigrants: How does local diversity contribute to attitudes toward immigration
This paper investigates the link between residential context, perceptions and attitudes toward immigrants by linking data from the British Election Study with Census statistics on composition of electoral constituencies in 2001 and 2011. I consider which type of local diversity is most salient for natives' attitudes by combining information on ethnicity, religion and skills. Second, I look at whether base levels of and changes in local diversity …
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go
After the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the media abounded with stories of people ‘fleeing city‐centres’ and ‘finding refuge in the countryside’. A recurrent argument is that the shift towards remote work has prompted individuals to reconsider their living situation and envisage the possibility of relocating further away from their workplace. The aim of this study is to examine the patterns of out‐migration from the Stockholm inner city duri…
Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden
This paper explores the relationship between neighbourhood level density of civil society organisations (CSOs), diversity, and deprivation. We compare the UK and Sweden, two countries with different civil society traditions and welfare state regimes. We use data on formal civil society organisations to examine whether diverse neighbourhoods have lower levels of civil society infrastructure. In the UK, contrary to what could be expected from Putna…
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation
We use data from Understanding Society to evaluate several claims advanced by David Goodhart inThe Road to Somewhere. We show that geographically mobile individuals are indeed more likely to support Remain in the EU referendum, as Goodhart suggests. But Remainers are no different to Leavers in how attached they are to their local community. And people reporting higher level of civic participation or those who are more trusting are actually less s…
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain
We use data from a large-scale and nationally representative survey to examine whether there is in Britain a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion. Using six separate measures of social cohesion (generalised trust, volunteering, giving to charity, inter-ethnic friendship, and two neighbourhood cohesion scales) and four measures of social diversity (ethnic fractionalisation, religious fractionalisation, percentage Muslim, and perc…
Null effects of neighbourhood increases in visible minorities on radical right wing party mobilisation
In many European countries, a growing share of population with immigrant background coincides with the surge in support for radical right parties. In this paper we show how such increases affect radical right candidacy. We use Swedish register data which identifies political candidates. With geocoded data, we match individuals running for the Sweden Democrats to their local neighbourhood contexts, and measure changes in the share of visible minor…
Anarchy in the UK: Economic Deprivation, Social Disorganization, and Political Grievances in the London Riot of 2011
Thousands rioted in London in August 2011, with the police losing control of parts of the city for four days. This event was not an ethnic riot: Participants were ethnically diverse and did not discriminate in choosing targets for looting or destruction. Whereas the sociological literature has focused on variation in rioting across cities, we examine variation within London by mapping the residential addresses of 1,620 rioters-who were subsequent…
Long-running traditions of racial exclusionism: Is there evidence of historical continuity in local support for extreme right parties in England and Wales
Some regions of the United Kingdom present more fertile grounds for consecutive incarnations of extreme right parties than others. In a study by Goodwin et al., the authors found evidence of the legacy effect, where an earlier cycle of activism by the National Front (NF), an extreme right political party active in the 1970s, emerged as a strong and significant predictor of membership in the British National Party (BNP) three decades later. While …
Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit
We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the economically left-behinds. The second narrative attributes Brexit to the resurgence of an English nationalism. There is some, albeit not always consistent, evidence that people in relative poverty or those living in areas that have seen greater Chinese import penetratio…
Too many immigrants: How does local diversity contribute to attitudes toward immigration
This paper investigates the link between residential context, perceptions and attitudes toward immigrants by linking data from the British Election Study with Census statistics on composition of electoral constituencies in 2001 and 2011. I consider which type of local diversity is most salient for natives' attitudes by combining information on ethnicity, religion and skills. Second, I look at whether base levels of and changes in local diversity …
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go
After the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the media abounded with stories of people ‘fleeing city‐centres’ and ‘finding refuge in the countryside’. A recurrent argument is that the shift towards remote work has prompted individuals to reconsider their living situation and envisage the possibility of relocating further away from their workplace. The aim of this study is to examine the patterns of out‐migration from the Stockholm inner city duri…
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation
We use data from Understanding Society to evaluate several claims advanced by David Goodhart inThe Road to Somewhere. We show that geographically mobile individuals are indeed more likely to support Remain in the EU referendum, as Goodhart suggests. But Remainers are no different to Leavers in how attached they are to their local community. And people reporting higher level of civic participation or those who are more trusting are actually less s…
Null effects of neighbourhood increases in visible minorities on radical right wing party mobilisation
In many European countries, a growing share of population with immigrant background coincides with the surge in support for radical right parties. In this paper we show how such increases affect radical right candidacy. We use Swedish register data which identifies political candidates. With geocoded data, we match individuals running for the Sweden Democrats to their local neighbourhood contexts, and measure changes in the share of visible minor…
Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden
This paper explores the relationship between neighbourhood level density of civil society organisations (CSOs), diversity, and deprivation. We compare the UK and Sweden, two countries with different civil society traditions and welfare state regimes. We use data on formal civil society organisations to examine whether diverse neighbourhoods have lower levels of civil society infrastructure. In the UK, contrary to what could be expected from Putna…
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots
Many of the world’s major cities have recently seen large episodes of social unrest. What is the relationship between the changes these cities have experienced, particularly in the form of gentrification, and urban riots? We address this question by examining how local gentrification affected participation in the 2011 London riots. We use an instrumental variable strategy that exploits exogenous variation in the amount of local destruction caused…
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections
This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Demo…
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain
We use data from a large-scale and nationally representative survey to examine whether there is in Britain a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion. Using six separate measures of social cohesion (generalised trust, volunteering, giving to charity, inter-ethnic friendship, and two neighbourhood cohesion scales) and four measures of social diversity (ethnic fractionalisation, religious fractionalisation, percentage Muslim, and perc…
Labor market competition and xenophobia: A regional analysis of labor market competition in Europe 2010–2020
According to market competition theory, the reasons for negative attitudes toward immigrants can be found in conditions prevailing in the labor market. In countries with rising unemployment and many immigrants, the latter are considered to be a threat to the economic standard of living of the native population. The contribution of this paper is a macro-level analysis of the conditions in 174 regions nested in 19 European countries that may affect…
Late-life divorce and housing changes among older men and women in Sweden
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Demography (4 works)