Leavers and Remainers after the Brexit referendum: More united than divided after all?

Hanel, Paul H. P.; Wolf, Lukas J.

doi:10.1111/bjso.12359

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“…Study 2 was part of a larger survey in which additional societal and environmental concerns, civic engagement, and political attitudes were measured. These data were used in another manuscript to compare those who voted to leave Europe with those who voted to remain during the EU Referendum in June 2016 (Hanel & Wolf, 2018). In this other manuscript, no comparisons between own and perceived values are made.…”

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The Perception of Family, City, and Country Values Is Often Biased

Hanel

Wolfradt

Coelho

et al. 2018

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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People often make inferences about the values of other people in their families, cities, and countries, but there are reasons to expect systematic biases in these inferences. Across four studies (N = 1,763), we examined people’s perceptions of the values of their families, fellow citizens of the cities in which they live, and compatriots across three nations (Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom). Our results show that people systematically misperceive comparison groups’ values. People underestimate the importance that their compatriots ascribe to more important values and overestimate the importance of less important values. This occurs in comparison with their own values, the actual values of the people living in the same city and the actual values of their compatriots. The effect sizes were medium to large. Furthermore, the results occurred independently of participants’ culture, time spent in the culture, and the underlying value model used. These results consistently show that people’s speculations about values in their community and society are biased in a self- and family favoring direction. In addition, we found that the structure of values (e.g., as proposed by Schwartz) holds for perceived family, fellow citizens of the cities in which they live, and compatriots’ values. Overall, our findings suggest that the values of other people are more selfless than is often believed.

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The Perception of Family, City, and Country Values Is Often Biased

Hanel

Wolfradt

Coelho

et al. 2018

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…However, some reconciliation between voters could happen. Hanel and Wolf (2019) demonstrated that Leave voters were more against immigrants, but the similarity of views between them and Remainers on migration was still 51%. My findings added that some Leavers would support high migration levels from certain countries.…”

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Spór migracyjny wśród użytkowników Tweetera w #BrexitDay

Teodorowski

2020

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Liberal states simultaneously pursue policies of encouraging and controlling (un)desired immigration. Forces of representative democracy, nationhood, constitutionalism, and capitalism - each call for distinct migration strategy. Previous research focusing on attitudes towards migration used quantitative methods examining values and perceptions that influence people’ opinions. Still, it did not explore the diversity and complexity of sentiments. This paper aims to provide a more nuanced perspective based on tweets at and around the last day of the British membership in the European Union (31 January 2020). Data were collected using NCapture- a web-browser extension which downloaded tweets with hashtags #Brexit, #BrexitDay and #BrexitEve, and imported them directly to NVivo. Seven batches of tweets were captured on 30-31 January and 1, 7-10 February; extracting 250,095 published between 23 January and 10 February. All retweets, duplicates, non-English tweets and spam were removed; leaving 888 tweets for the analysis. The dataset was coded twice; assigning sentiments towards Brexit as positive (n=203), negative (n=586) or neutral (n=99), and using inductive thematic analysis.The findings showed the division of discourse on migration were more complicated than merely in favour and against immigration. Interestingly, they also exhibited the shift in the British debate from benefits and drawbacks of immigration to the reciprocity of migration policies in the future relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

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“…The ESS employs strict probability samples of the population aged 15 and over. We exclude those countries that are not European Union members, including the United Kingdom, the respondents from which were not asked about how they would vote in such a referendum and instead asked about how they voted in the 2016 referendum, subjecting responses to different, unique dynamics that have been studied elsewhere, including in terms of the effects of Schwartz’s values (Dennison et al, 2020; Hanel & Wolf, 2020). Thus, this variable may not be comparable in the UK with the one measured in the other countries.…”

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The Role of Human Values in Explaining Support for European Union Membership

Dennison

Seddig

Davidov

2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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In recent years, there has been greater scholarly enquiry into explaining variation in support for European Union membership. We theorise that one cause of such variation is likely to be non-political psychological predispositions, such as one’s personal values. We test this proposition by applying Schwartz’s theory of basic human values to predict voting intentions in hypothetical referendums on EU membership. We theorise that these values determine both voting intentions and more proximate explanatory variables of support for EU membership: attitudes to immigration and identifying as European. Using data on 13 countries from the European Social Survey ( N=24,703 citizens) and multigroup structural equation modeling, we demonstrate that this psychological framework effectively predicts voting intentions, notably in terms of the consistent cross-country evidence for indirect effects of values on support for membership via European identity and attitudes to immigration. We then discuss the implications of our findings, including differences in effects between countries.

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Leavers and Remainers after the Brexit referendum: More united than divided after all?

Cited by 12 publications

References 65 publications

The Perception of Family, City, and Country Values Is Often Biased

The Perception of Family, City, and Country Values Is Often Biased

Spór migracyjny wśród użytkowników Tweetera w #BrexitDay

The Role of Human Values in Explaining Support for European Union Membership

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