Political elite discourses polarize attitudes toward immigration along ideological lines. A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the twenty-first century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7843833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander W Schmidt-Catran (0000-0002-9485-6314), C S Czymara (0000-0002-9535-3559) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-109 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2132222 |
| OpenAlex | W4307382992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 66 |
Immigration is a hotly-debated topic in many countries around the world. We examine how immigration-related political elite discourses affect natives' attitudes towards immigration and how these discourses contribute to polarisation along political and socio-economic dimensions. Drawing upon longitudinal cross-national data from the European Social Survey over 18 years and a genuine within-country estimator for both country-level main effects and cross-level interactions, our results show that, controlling for actual immigration, anti-immigrant attitudes increase when political elites express more exclusionary sentiments towards immigration and decrease when political elites express more inclusionary sentiments. Deeper analyses reveal exclusionary political elite discourses primarily resonate with voters on the right, whereas the effects of inclusionary discourses do not vary with political orientation. We do not find any attitude polarisation between lower- and highly-educated individuals. In sum, our results indicate that ideological and discursive aspects of inter-group conflict are more important than real-world conditions
Biology and political orientation · Demographic economics · Economics · Elite · European Social Survey · Ideology · Immigration · Immigration policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
To what extent do political elites influence public opinion about immigration?
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Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees
Digital Memory Wars
Political polarization, legitimacy and democratic education
Le défi nativiste à la démocratie libérale1
Settlement deservingness perceptions of climate change, economic, and political migrant groups across partisan lines
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants
How refugees respond to hostile political discourse
Humanrightization of Migration Discourses
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Rising inequality
Measuring the effect of media framing on behavior towards refugees
Speaking apart
Normative climates and immigration
Media influences on ethnic majority attitudes toward ethnic minorities
Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration
Bilateral Reciprocity and Attitudes Toward Immigration
Misperceptions of the foreign-born population size in European societies. The role of immigration-related national discourses
Can nationalism and group conflict explain cultural and economic threat perceptions? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the ISSP (1995–2013)
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Structuring articulation
State Capacity, Refugee Reception, and Attitudes towards Refugees
Beyond Cultural Narratives
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A closed border is a compassionate border
Careless whisper
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Are Natives Collar-Blind? Migration Flows and Attitudes Toward Immigration
Structured encounters and immigrant experiences of integration in Sweden
The Role of Politics in Public Views About Immigrants
How Do People Perceive Immigrants? Relating Perceptions to Numbers
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Mapping Policy Preferences ii
Multiple imputation
Toward a Theory of Minority Group Relations
The Influence of News Media on Stereotypic Attitudes Toward Immigrants in a Political Campaign
A Theory of Framing and Opinion Formation in Competitive Elite Environments
Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
Labor Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy
Who Is Willing to Share the Burden? Attitudes Towards the Allocation of Asylum Seekers in Comparative Perspective
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Why do the less educated oppose trade openness? A test of three explanations in the Netherlands
Social Trust and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Europe
The relationship between ethnic threat and economic insecurity in times of economic crisis
Begging the question
Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat
Party Discourse and Prejudiced Attitudes toward Migrants in Western Europe at the Beginning of the 2000s
Propagated Preferences? Political Elite Discourses and Europeans’ Openness toward Muslim Immigrants
Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice
Changing attitudes toward immigration in Europe, 2002–2007
Attitudes toward Refugees in Contemporary Europe
Multilevel Models for the Analysis of Comparative Survey Data
Economic conditions and perceptions of immigrants as an economic threat in Europe
National and regional proportion of immigrants and perceived threat of immigration
Articulated antipathies
The dynamic relations between economic conditions and anti-immigrant sentiment
Foreigners' Impact on European Societies
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Psychological Needs and Values Underlying Left-Right Political Orientation
How Many Immigrants
A hot topic? Immigration on the agenda in Western Europe
Perceptions and misperceptions
Educated Preferences
Why You Should Always Include a Random Slope for the Lower-Level Variable Involved in a Cross-Level Interaction
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The Rise of Anti-foreigner Sentiment in European Societies, 1988-2000
Education and Anti-Immigration Attitudes
Two-Stage Regression and Multilevel Modeling
Revisiting the Relationship between Educational Attainment and Political Sophistication
Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads
Two Multilevel Modeling Techniques for Analyzing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Datasets
The Dynamics of Voters’ Left/Right Identification
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration
Group Size versus Change? Assessing Americans’ Perception of Local Immigration
Immigration, left and right
Contagious Parties
The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
European Opinion About Immigration
Getting the Within Estimator of Cross-Level Interactions in Multilevel Models with Pooled Cross-Sections
Intergroup Contact Theory
Influential Cases in Multilevel Modeling
The educational divide over feelings about ethnic minorities
Do Numbers Really Count? Group Threat Theory Revisited
Politicising immigration in times of crisis
Media effects on policy preferences toward free movement
In the wake of radical right electoral success
The centre-right versus the radical right
Predisposing Factors and Situational Triggers
Politicized Places
A Distorted Nation
The Random Effects in Multilevel Models
Educated Preferences or Selection Effects? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Population size, perceived threat, and exclusion
| Unique citing works | 41 |
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| Citations per year | 10,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |