Ethnoracial Homogeneity and Public Outcomes: The (Non)effects of Diversity

Kustov, Alexander; Pardelli, Giuliana

doi:10.1017/s0003055418000308

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“…In sum, this study goes beyond the prevailing “economy versus culture” dichotomy by questioning the explanatory power of group threat and highlighting the role of group status in politics (also see Kustov & Pardelli, ). While perceived cultural difference and economic competition are certainly important drivers of popular opposition to certain immigrant groups, my results challenge the conventional interpretation of this opposition solely through the prism of threatened interests and values.…”

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Is There a Backlash Against Immigration From Richer Countries? International Hierarchy and the Limits of Group Threat

Kustov

2019

Political Psychology

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Why do immigrants from particular countries systematically face more opposition? To resolve inconsistencies of prevailing group‐threat theories, I reintroduce a long‐standing hypothesis stipulating that people have a disposition for maintaining status hierarchy between ethnic groups. Accordingly, independent of perceived economic or cultural threat, natives are more likely to prefer immigrant groups of higher status based on the development level of the group's national origin. To test this argument, I exploit a substantial provincial variation of immigration flows and attitudes in Spain—one of the only countries that has received immigrants from both less and more developed countries. Consistent with my hypothesis, I demonstrate that anti‐immigration attitudes are more widespread in areas with immigrants from less developed countries regardless of their economic and cultural characteristics. I further document that many voters perceive stable group hierarchies and that these preferences are more predictive of anti‐immigration attitudes in lower‐status immigration contexts. Overall, these results suggest that even culturally similar and economically beneficial immigrant groups from poorer countries can face public opposition due to their lower‐status national origin, highlighting the independent role of group‐status perceptions in politics.

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Is There a Backlash Against Immigration From Richer Countries? International Hierarchy and the Limits of Group Threat

Kustov

2019

Political Psychology

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“…58 Another study found that more homogeneous Afro-descendant communities had lower public goods provisions. 59 Proposition 3: Mission-related information affects coproduction positively.…”

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Communication for coproduction: a systematic review and research agenda

2019

Journal of Chinese Governance

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Government and nonprofit organizations communicate with the public to reduce the degree of information asymmetry that could impede the two parties from working together to achieve higher levels of performance and accountability and coproduce better policy outcomes and public goods. Different organizational communication strategies' influences, including choices of information channels, types, frequency, and contents, vary across individuals. This study reviews the relevant literature, discusses various communication strategies and their influences on citizens and implications for public policies and programs, develops a conceptual framework, and proposes a research agenda for future studies.

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“…To do this, we study a context, the Chicago metro area (i.e., "Chicagoland"), with a substantial number of predominately non-White neighborhoods. In such neighborhoods, high non-White representation coincides with low heterogeneity; these observations are needed to disentangle the effects of heterogeneity from those of group share (Kustov and Pardelli 2018).…”

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“…1 The use of these indexes has been roundly criticized, because they obscure the identities and hierarchies between groups (Posner 2004;Abascal and Baldassarri 2015), while being, in many contexts, collinear with the representation of minority groups (Kustov and Pardelli 2018;Schaeffer 2013).…”

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Know it when you see it? The qualities of the communities people describe as “diverse” (or not)

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Ganter²

2020

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The term “diversity” is increasingly used in interpersonal and institutional discourse, yet the meanings assigned to this term are complicated and sometimes contradictory. “Diversity” may refer to multiple attributes—ethnoracial, economic, etc. It may also refer to multiple dimensions of the same attribute—heterogeneity, i.e., mixture, or the representation of disadvantaged groups, e.g., the share of Blacks. We analyze a new survey of Chicago area residents to explore what people mean by “diversity,” not when they define “diversity” in the abstract, but when they use it to describe real communities. First, we confirm that respondents are most likely to mention ethnoracial and economic differences when explaining the decision to describe their neighborhood as “diverse.” Then, we examine whether the decision to describe a neighborhood as diverse is predicted by that neighborhood’s objective ethnoracial or economic attributes, in terms of both heterogeneity and representation. We find that assessed diversity is predicted by both ethnoracial heterogeneity and the neighborhood share of Non-Whites. In addition, Whites associate diversity with economic equality. Overall, a neighborhood’s ethnoracial attributes better predict assessed diversity than its economic ones. Our findings challenge the notion, implicit in legal precedent and institutional discourse, that “diversity” is an apparent, agreed-upon quality.

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Ethnoracial Homogeneity and Public Outcomes: The (Non)effects of Diversity

Cited by 33 publications

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Is There a Backlash Against Immigration From Richer Countries? International Hierarchy and the Limits of Group Threat

Is There a Backlash Against Immigration From Richer Countries? International Hierarchy and the Limits of Group Threat

Communication for coproduction: a systematic review and research agenda

Know it when you see it? The qualities of the communities people describe as “diverse” (or not)

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