Is “Threat” in the Eye of the Researcher? Theory and Measurement in the Study of State‐Level Immigration Policymaking
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 6330338 |
|---|---|
| Autores | A Filindra (0000-0003-4539-240X, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2019 |
| Volumen | 47 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 517-543 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12264 |
| OpenAlex | W2896889613 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 27 |
| Referencias citadas | 57 |
This study initiates a methodological critique of the state‐level immigration policy literature through the lens of the racial threat and group power perspectives. First, I highlight the conceptual problems related to the application of such theories to legislature‐level data analysis. Next, I demonstrate the methodological and analytical problems that raise concerns about ad hoc theorizing in this field. Using counts of hostile and welcoming immigration legislation (2005–2011), I demonstrate that outgroup size measures correlate positively with both dependent variables while measures of population growth rate yield null results unless used on their own. These results suggest that the use of legislature‐level models with demographic indicators does not allow us to gain a clear understanding of whether and how population dynamics influence immigration policymaking. Based on these findings, I recommend that when using demographic indicators as key explanatory variables, researchers provide evidence of result consistency across multiple model specifications and also test the models with both hostile and inclusive policy variables. Such protocols would help avoid ad hoc theorizing
Consistency (knowledge bases · Econometrics · Economics · Explanatory power · Immigration · Immigration policy · Legislature · Political science · Population · Positive economics · Sociology · Demography · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics
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Demographic Context, Mass Deportation, and Latino Linked Fate
Civically Engaged Research (CER)
Importance of State and Local Variation in Black–Brown Attitudes
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Employer Verification Mandates and Infant Health
Coping with a changing integration policy context
Explaining the immigrant integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions
US Enforcement Politics and Remittance Dynamics in Mexico
Latinx identification with whiteness
Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment and the Adoption of State Immigration Policy
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The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement
Descriptive Representation under Group Conflict Scenarios
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Anti-Immigrant Anxieties in State Policy
Approaches to Modeling the Adoption and Diffusion of Policies with Multiple Components
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| Obras citantes distintas | 27 |
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| Citas por año | 3,86 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 27 |