In the wake of radical right electoral success: a cross-country comparative study of anti-immigration attitudes over time

Bohman, Andrea; Hjerm, Mikael

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1131607

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“…In , in many countries, sociocultural professionals are somewhat more positive than managers and business professionals, a finding that fits well with recent research on this group's political distinctiveness(Kitschelt & Rehm 2014;Oesch & Rennwald 2018). Still, we note that support for immigration even among workers registers around the mid-point of the scale on average across countries, and is above this level in the U.S.Moreover, across countries, views toward immigration have generally been stable in recent years(Bohman & Hjerm 2016).Placed alongside the data from the previous section on views toward economic policies, these attitudinal patterns speak to the potential complexity of establishing durable class coalitions in advanced capitalist democracies. Most notably, while both workers and sociocultural professionals might support egalitarian economic policies, they do not necessarily agree on sociocultural issues.…”

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Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

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2020

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In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided with growing economic inequality, rising support for non-mainstream political parties and candidates, and increasing flows of immigration. We review social science research on the views of different class segments vis-à-vis economic, political, and sociocultural issues, finding greater scholarly attention to the interdependence of economic, social, and political concerns and preferences than arguably was the case even a few years ago. Our main aim is to synthesize and critically evaluate this rapidly expanding literature, but we also provide empirical data on class differences and similarities in political opinion across eighteen countries, and we pinpoint several areas of research that are in need of further empirical, methodological, and theoretical inquiry. Acknowledgements:We are extremely grateful for comments from the ARS reviewer and editor, Social Cleavages and Orientations, ed. S Svallfors, pp. 30-79. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press Edlund J, Lindh A. 2013. Institutional trust and welfare state support: on the role of trust in market institutions. J. Public Policy 33(3):295-317 Edlund J, Lindh A. 2015. The democratic class struggle revisited: the welfare state, social cohesion and political conflict. Acta Sociol. 58(4):311-28

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“…We assess this by analyzing the bivariate relationship between tolerance and various measures of prejudice. We rely on measures commonly used in analyses of prejudice and already validated in previous research (e.g., Bohman and Hjerm 2016;Glick and Fiske 1996;Pettigrew and Meertens 1995). These variables capture prejudice, anti-gay sentiment, anti-immigration sentiment, and sexism.…”

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A New Approach to the Study of Tolerance: Conceptualizing and Measuring Acceptance, Respect, and Appreciation of Difference

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Previous empirical research on tolerance suffers from a number of shortcomings, the most serious being the conceptual and operational conflation of (in)tolerance and prejudice. We design research to remedy this. First, we contribute to the literature by advancing research that distinguishes analytically between the two phenomena. We conceptualize tolerance as a value orientation towards difference. This definition-which is abstract and does not capture attitudes towards specific out-groups, ideas, or behaviors-allows for the analysis of tolerance within and between societies. Second, we improve the measurement of tolerance by developing survey items that are consistent with this conceptualization. We administer two surveys, one national (Sweden) and one cross-national (Australia, Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States). Results from structural equation models show that tolerance is best understood as a three-dimensional concept, which includes acceptance of, respect for, and appreciation of difference. Analyses show that measures of tolerance have metric invariance across countries, and additional tests demonstrate convergent and discriminant validity. We also assess tolerance's relationship to prejudice and find that only an appreciation of difference has the potential to reduce prejudice. We conclude that it is not only possible to measure tolerance in a way that is distinct from prejudice but also necessary if we are to understand the causes and consequences of tolerance.

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“…While RRPs have been found to impact policy positions of other political parties (Minkenberg ; Bolin et al ; Careja et al ), previous studies provide mixed results in relation to the degree of negative immigrant attitudes (Muis & Immerzeel ). While some find significant effects of RRP presence (Semyonov et al ; Sprague‐Jones ), others do not (Dunn & Singh ; Bohman & Hjerm ), which can be related to how RRPs generally lack legitimacy in the eyes of the broader public (cf. Druckman ).…”

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Who's Welcome and Who's Not? Opposition towards Immigration in the Nordic Countries, 2002–2014

Bohman

2018

Scand Pol Stud

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This article demonstrates the analytical advantages of studying not only the degree to which people oppose immigration in a country, but also the character of their opposition. Using Latent Class Analysis and data from the European Social Survey, Nordic patterns and trends are examined with the aim of identifying different kinds of immigration attitudes and how they develop in different national contexts. The Nordic countries are interesting to compare as, while they are similar in many respects, they also diverge significantly from each other in areas theoretically considered important to the formation of attitudes towards immigration. Studying the character of immigration opposition reveals five different types of immigration attitudes. These are differently distributed between the Nordic countries as well as over time, and include nativist opposition (opposition only towards immigrants of ethnic/racial groups other than that of the majority population) and economic opposition (opposition that entails a separation between immigrants considered to be an economic resource and an economic burden). By demonstrating how immigration opposition in the Nordic countries varies not only in degree but also in character, the article contributes to a deeper understanding of the nature of immigration opposition as well as of how different attitudinal profiles evolve under different contextual circumstances.

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In the wake of radical right electoral success: a cross-country comparative study of anti-immigration attitudes over time

Cited by 78 publications

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Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

A New Approach to the Study of Tolerance: Conceptualizing and Measuring Acceptance, Respect, and Appreciation of Difference

Who's Welcome and Who's Not? Opposition towards Immigration in the Nordic Countries, 2002–2014

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