Ideological Biases Weaken the Impact of Social Trust on Ethnic Outgroup Threat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6344964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jens Peter Frølund Thomsen (0000-0002-6013-783X, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Arzoo Rafiqi (0000-0002-6998-287X, Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 523-540 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032321719862751 |
| OpenAlex | W2965341834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 76 |
Previous studies have not examined whether (personal) political ideology influences how trusters perceive of immigrants and refugees as a threat. Our contribution to the literature builds on theories of motivated reasoning and hypothesizes that political ideology weakens the ability of social trust to reduce perceived (ethnic) outgroup threat. Indeed, analyses show that the relationship between social trust and perceived outgroup threat is considerably weaker among rightists than among leftists. Although social trust does relate negatively to perceived outgroup threat across the ideological divide, political ideology has a constraining influence that cannot be ignored. Social trust is also a political phenomenon. We apply a fixed-effects regression, and analyses are based on the 2014-European Social Survey, including 21 countries and 32,175 individuals. In the concluding section, we discuss the full implications of our findings for theories of social trust in an era of increasing flows of immigrants and refugees that go beyond the usual gateway nations
Ethnic group · Ideology · Immigration · Motivated reasoning · Outgroup · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |