Hostility Towards Immigration in Europe: Examining the Role of Mass-Elite Relations and the Context of Public Salience

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dc.contributor.advisorPeinhardt, Clint
dc.creatorWalke, Denise
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-07T19:33:28Z
dc.date.available2019-10-07T19:33:28Z
dc.date.created2019-05
dc.date.issued2019-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2019
dc.date.updated2019-10-07T19:33:29Z
dc.description.abstractDeterminants of anti-immigration attitudes are traditionally ascribed to individual or group-level predispositions such as education, income or cultural threat. This paper contributes to this research by taking into account characteristics of the mass-elite relations, namely the impact of political trust, the presence of populist right-winged parties and the elite discourse on multiculturalism. Additionally, the analysis considers different levels of public salience of immigration. Using a hierarchical logistic model, the paper combines data from the Eurobarometer survey, ParlGov and the Comparative Manifesto Project from 2014 to 2017 to examine the impact of factors of mass-elite relations on anti-immigration attitudes and the context of salience. The analysis shows that political trust decreases and a positive elite discourse on multiculturalism increases hostility towards immigration. While neither public salience nor the presence of right-wing parties impact hostility towards immigration by themselves, the presence of right-wing parties conditioned on high public saliences increases hostility towards immigration.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/6964
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights©2019 Denise Walke
dc.subjectEmigration and immigration)—Public opinion
dc.subjectLogits
dc.subjectElite (Social sciences)—Attitudes
dc.subjectPopulism
dc.subjectMulticulturalism
dc.titleHostility Towards Immigration in Europe: Examining the Role of Mass-Elite Relations and the Context of Public Salience
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentInternational Political Economy
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Dallas
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMS

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