2. Die »mitte«-Studie 2016: Methode, Ergebnisse Und Langzeitverlauf

Decker, Oliver; Kiess, Johannes; Eggers, Eva; Brähler, Elmar

doi:10.30820/9783837972337-23

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“…Such preconditions provide only relatively few opportunities for intergroup contact for Germans in East as compared to West Germany. Contact theory has consequently been widely used as social-psychological theoretical framework explaining higher levels of prejudice (e.g., Decker et al, 2016; Zick et al, 2019) as well as higher rates of xenophobic attacks and hate crimes against foreigners (e.g., Benček and Strasheim, 2016) in East versus West Germany (see also Wagner et al, 2003; Andresen et al, 2018). Furthermore, intergroup contact with specifically refugees is more prevalent in West than in East Germany as revealed in recent large-scale surveys (Ahrens, 2017).…”

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Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Rees

Hellmann

et al. 2019

Front. Psychol.

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Since 2015, far right parties drawing heavily on radical anti-refugee rhetoric gained electoral support in Germany while the number of political hate crimes targeting refugees rose. Both phenomena – far right electoral support and prevalence of right-wing hate crimes – have theoretically and empirically been linked with socio-structural and contextual variables. However, systematic empirical research on these links is scattered and scarce at best. We combine official statistics on political hate crimes targeting refugees in Germany and far right electoral support of the far right party “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD) in the German national elections 2017 with socio-structural variables (proportion of foreigners and unemployment rate) and survey data collected in a representative survey (N = 1,506) in 2016. We aggregate and combine data for all German municipalities except Berlin which were the level of analysis for the current study. In path analyses, we find socio-structural variables to be unrelated with each other but significantly correlated with both criterion variables in a systematic fashion: proportion of foreigners was negatively while unemployment rate was positively linked with far right electoral support. Right-wing crime was linked positively with unemployment rate across Germany and positively with proportion of foreigners only in East Germany while proportion of foreigners was unrelated to right-wing crime in West Germany. When including survey measures into the model, they were linked with socio-structural variables in the predicted fashion – intergroup contact correlated positively with proportion of foreigners, collective deprivation correlated positively with unemployment rates, and both predicted extreme right-wing attitudes. However, their contribution to the explained variance in outcome variables above and beyond socio-structural variables was neglectable. We argue that both far right-wing electoral support and right-wing hate crime can be conceptualized as behavioral forms of political extremism shaped through socio-structural and contextual factors and discuss implications for preventing political extremism.

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Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Rees

Hellmann

et al. 2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…46 Empirical findings support the thesis that the Sarrazin debate highlighted an existing discourse against 'outsiders': a quarter of the German population exhibits xenophobic attitudes, depending on age, level of education and migration background, whereupon education works as a 'shield' against these attributes. 47 At the same time, approval of pluralist values has risen within the last years. 48 These findings are not contrary to one another; they all the more illustrate that xenophobic or authoritarian attributes on the one hand do not necessarily lead to a consistent conviction.…”

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The AfD and its Sympathisers: Finally a Right-Wing Populist Movement in Germany?

Berbuir¹,

Lewandowsky²,

Siri³

2014

German Politics

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“…Seven-level Likert scale (1 = "strongly agree"; 7 = "strongly disagree") (Items taken from Decker, Kiess, Eggers and Brähler, 2016 52 and Deutz-Schroeder and Schroeder, 2016 53 )…”

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Signaling Moral Values through Consumption

Schneider

2020

SSRN Journal

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Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, in contrast with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: consumers seek to signal that they have "good" moral values to themselves and others by avoiding products popular among people with "bad" values. In laboratory experiments, I provide causal evidence that demand for a product is lower if its customer base consists of individuals with undesirable moral values. This effect occurs for both observable and unobservable consumption and for products that do not possess any inherent moral or undesirable qualities.

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2. Die »mitte«-Studie 2016: Methode, Ergebnisse Und Langzeitverlauf

Cited by 142 publications

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Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

The AfD and its Sympathisers: Finally a Right-Wing Populist Movement in Germany?

Signaling Moral Values through Consumption

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