Nativism or Economic Threat: Attitudes Toward Immigrants During the Great Recession

Survey Research in International Political Economy: Motivations, Designs, Methods

“…Judith L. Goldstein and Margaret E. Peters (2014) study the role of cultural versus material attitudes toward immigration by leveraging changes in the economic conditions of respondents over time. The survey component of their research design is designed to cleanly measure attitudes toward immigrants of different skill levels.…”

Surveys, Experiments, and the Landscape of International Political Economy

“…It also invites productive exchanges about the role of distributional politics versus other factors in shaping preferences over international economic exchange, as in Jens Hainmueller and Michael Hiscox's (2007) careful exploration of whether college education proxies for skill or socialization in the formation of preferences about immigration. The findings in Judith L. Goldstein and Margaret E. Peters (2014) and Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Thomas Brawner, Bumba Mukherjee, and Vineeta Yadav (2014) can be read in this light. It could also be the case that individual choices are themselves the direct inputs to the politics of international economic exchange.…”

Introduction: Survey and Experimental Research in International Political Economy

“…Judith L. Goldstein and Margaret E. Peters' (2014) article leverages a carefully designed panel-survey experiment between 2007 and 2012 in the United States that focuses on two main sources of attitudes toward immigrants: nativism and economic threat. Their panel-survey experiment generates a simple yet compelling insight that has not received sufficient attention in the growing IPE literature on individual attitudes toward immigration.…”