East European Discontent

Economic Expectations of Young Adults

“…Our data come from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for respondents ages 18 to 24 to explain a general sense of economic worry of young adults as well as two more specific expectations they have about future jobs. Given our focus on the role of socioeconomic background and social relations, we examine predictors of economic expectationssense of economy worry of young adults as well as two more specific expectations they have about future jobs-during a period of macroeconomic stability, that is before the 2008 economic crisis, as it is reasonable to expect that changes in the macroeconomic environment would also influence individuals' economic attitudes (Bandelj and Finley 2018;Beckert 2016).…”

Contextualizing Anti-Immigrant Attitudes of East Europeans

“…The LITS, which was conducted in three waves in 2006, 2010, and 2016, is commonly used by social scientists to investigate economic, political, and social issues related to the post-communist transition (e.g. Anderson, 2017;Bandelj, 2016;Bandelj & Finley, 2019;Cojocaru, 2014aCojocaru, , 2014bCojocaru & Diagne, 2015;Djankov, Nikolova, & Zilinsky, 2016;Guriev & Melnikov, 2018;Habibov, Auchynnikava, & Luo, 2019;Korosteleva & Stepien-Baig, 2020;Nikolova & Sanfrey, 2016;Sanfrey, 2013;Schneider, 2017;Spoor, Tasciotti, & Peleah, 2014;Tertytchnaya, Vries, Solaz, & Doyle, 2018;Tkalec, 2020). To investigate the impact of the 2015 European migrant crisis, we used data from the 2010 and 2016 waves.…”

“…Across the world, recently elected leaders have garnered support from nationalist and populist movements, including in Russia (Grigoryan & Ponizovskiy, 2019), Hungary and Poland (Bandelj & Finley, 2019), the United States (Baker, Perry, & Whitehead, 2020), and Brazil (Schmidt & Quandt, 2018). Nationalism and populism are often accompanied by the stoking of anti-immigrant hostility (Bonikowski, 2017), raising questions of when and how people express negative attitudes toward immigrants.…”

“…Indeed, comparative research shows that ethnically oriented nationalism, which is hostile to non-natives, is stronger in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe (Ariely, 2013;Ceobanu & Escandell, 2008). Scholars also show that economic discontent (Bandelj & Finley, 2019) and income inequality (Mahutga & Bandelj, 2009;Bandelj & Mahutga, 2010) in Eastern Europe has been increasing for multiple decades and cannot be attributed solely to post-2008 financial crisis-related economic downturns (Bandelj & Finley, 2019). Taken together, these studies underscore the importance of understanding immigrant attitudes in Eastern Europe in the context of fundamental transformations of socio-economic systems after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe (Hann 2002).…”