Weiqian Xia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4224900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weiqian Xia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Weiqian |
| FAMILY NAME | Xia |
| SIGNATURE | XIA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6301-216X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Secular Divide and GAL/TAN Politics
National contexts have been overlooked by previous comparative studies on the impact of same-sex union (SSU) legislations on public attitudes toward homosexuality. This study examines the role of religion focusing on two aspects: the secular-religious divide and the GAL/TAN political cleavage polarization. Using 2002–2016 European Social Survey from 24 countries, I demonstrate that legislation has more diverging impact in more secular countries, …
Returns to Returning with Sibling Comparisons
How experience of migration affects the labor market outcome after remigration is difficult to examine because both migration and remigration processes are driven by various mechanisms of selection. In this study, we investigate the labor market outcomes of return migration in Finland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. With Finnish register data covering the period 1987–2019, we use a counterfactual sibling fixed-effects design that compa…
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularly in highly secular and historically religiously homogeneous Nordic settings, there has been little research, and representative data for minority groups are rare. We offer a pioneering study using national register data to study religious changes over the past five decades in Finland, where the two n…
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries
Radical ethnonationalism has drastically risen in Western politics, largely mobilized by nostalgia for the country's past with homogeneity and Christianity as a cultural symbol against non‐Western immigrants, especially Muslims. However, how nostalgia for Christianity's past significance can invoke anti‐Muslim sentiments is unknown, especially given that Christianity is increasingly losing its previous status under secularization, resulting in ra…
Mediators explaining radical right voting patterns of Christians in Europe
Previous studies show that radical right parties in Europe receive relatively low levels of supports from Christian voters, despite that Christian value is highlighted in the European radical right agenda. However, the mechanism remains largely untested. The study investigates the factors underlying Christians voting or not voting for populist radical right parties across Europe, using Round 8 European Social Survey data. It is shown that there i…
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularly in highly secular and historically religiously homogeneous Nordic settings, there has been little research, and representative data for minority groups are rare. We offer a pioneering study using national register data to study religious changes over the past five decades in Finland, where the two n…
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries
Radical ethnonationalism has drastically risen in Western politics, largely mobilized by nostalgia for the country's past with homogeneity and Christianity as a cultural symbol against non‐Western immigrants, especially Muslims. However, how nostalgia for Christianity's past significance can invoke anti‐Muslim sentiments is unknown, especially given that Christianity is increasingly losing its previous status under secularization, resulting in ra…
Mediators explaining radical right voting patterns of Christians in Europe
Previous studies show that radical right parties in Europe receive relatively low levels of supports from Christian voters, despite that Christian value is highlighted in the European radical right agenda. However, the mechanism remains largely untested. The study investigates the factors underlying Christians voting or not voting for populist radical right parties across Europe, using Round 8 European Social Survey data. It is shown that there i…
Mediators explaining radical right voting patterns of Christians in Europe
Previous studies show that radical right parties in Europe receive relatively low levels of supports from Christian voters, despite that Christian value is highlighted in the European radical right agenda. However, the mechanism remains largely untested. The study investigates the factors underlying Christians voting or not voting for populist radical right parties across Europe, using Round 8 European Social Survey data. It is shown that there i…
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries
Radical ethnonationalism has drastically risen in Western politics, largely mobilized by nostalgia for the country's past with homogeneity and Christianity as a cultural symbol against non‐Western immigrants, especially Muslims. However, how nostalgia for Christianity's past significance can invoke anti‐Muslim sentiments is unknown, especially given that Christianity is increasingly losing its previous status under secularization, resulting in ra…
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularly in highly secular and historically religiously homogeneous Nordic settings, there has been little research, and representative data for minority groups are rare. We offer a pioneering study using national register data to study religious changes over the past five decades in Finland, where the two n…
The Secular Divide and GAL/TAN Politics
National contexts have been overlooked by previous comparative studies on the impact of same-sex union (SSU) legislations on public attitudes toward homosexuality. This study examines the role of religion focusing on two aspects: the secular-religious divide and the GAL/TAN political cleavage polarization. Using 2002–2016 European Social Survey from 24 countries, I demonstrate that legislation has more diverging impact in more secular countries, …
Returns to Returning with Sibling Comparisons
How experience of migration affects the labor market outcome after remigration is difficult to examine because both migration and remigration processes are driven by various mechanisms of selection. In this study, we investigate the labor market outcomes of return migration in Finland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. With Finnish register data covering the period 1987–2019, we use a counterfactual sibling fixed-effects design that compa…
Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Secularization (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works)