Taking cues on multidimensional issues: the case of attitudes toward immigration

Hellwig, Timothy; Kweon, Yesola

doi:10.1080/01402382.2015.1136491

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“…It would be far‐fetched to believe that all members of society rely on elite cues under all circumstances and in a similar fashion. Previous research has examined which individual characteristics render cue‐taking more likely (Hellwig and Kweon, ; Kam, ; Slothuus, ). We focus on two individual characteristics, namely citizens' party identification (PID) and their political sophistication.…”

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“…Summarizing a vast literature on public opinion and foreign affairs, Zaller (, p. 186) posits that ‘the more citizens know about politics and public affairs, the more firmly they are wedded to elite and media perspectives on foreign policy issues’. Hellwig and Kweon () find that party cues on immigration policy have a stronger impact on people with higher levels of education than on less educated people. They argue that immigration – like redistribution in the EU (Margalit, ) – is a multidimensional issue entailing diverse economic and cultural considerations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They argue that immigration – like redistribution in the EU (Margalit, ) – is a multidimensional issue entailing diverse economic and cultural considerations. According to Hellwig and Kweon (), highly educated people receive and process a greater amount and more variety of information, which might be mutually contradictory. They might therefore be torn between different pressures when it comes to immigration policies and refer to their party's stance to form an opinion.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mobilizing Citizens for Costly Policies: The Conditional Effect of Party Cues on Support for International Bailouts in the European Union

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Kuhn

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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Previous research finds citizens' attitudes towards international redistribution in the European sovereign debt crisis to be related to party preferences. This article further reveals the nature of this link. We show that citizens follow party cues on international bailouts, rather than having merely ideologically congruent positions. By employing an original survey experiment that exposes respondents to elite cues, we additionally uncover underlying dynamics. First, party cues mobilize support for bailouts even in the face of salient elite dissent and, second, even a strong elite consensus does not affect citizens without PID and low levels of political sophistication. The findings of the experiment are cross-validated with data from the voter survey of European Election Study 2014. The results suggest that current debates about international bailout packages deepen a polarization between politicized and non-politicized Europeans.

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Mobilizing Citizens for Costly Policies: The Conditional Effect of Party Cues on Support for International Bailouts in the European Union

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Kuhn

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Alternative interpretations involve processes of framing and agenda-setting of Dutch PRRPs and/or skewed media representations of specific cultural issues. After all, research indicates that political attitudes and sentiments among the public can be inspired by the extent to and the ways in which political parties (Hellwig and Kweon 2016;Minkenberg 2001) and the media (Boomgaarden and Vliegenthart 2009; Van Spanje and De Vreese 2014) emphasise specific issues. We argue that such mechanisms may not only be true for the contents of political attitudes, but also for the ways people structure these attitudes -i.e.…”

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How people organise cultural attitudes: cultural belief systems and the populist radical right

Daenekindt

Koster

Waal

2017

West European Politics

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Political scientists generally agree that all individuals structure their cultural attitudes in the same unidimensional fashion. However, various populist radical right parties remarkably combine moral progressiveness with conservatism regarding immigration-related issues. This suggests that the structuring of cultural attitudes among the electorate may also be more complex than typically assumed. Applying Correlational Class Analysis to representative survey data, the study uncovers three cultural belief systems. For individuals adhering to an integrated one, all cultural attitudes are interdependent, as typically assumed. However, two alternative belief systems are also uncovered: intermediate and partitioned. In the latter, positions on one cultural attitude (e.g. ethnocentrism) are barely related to positions on others (e.g. rejecting Islam or opposing homosexuality). The existence of multiple cultural belief systems challenges the widely held assumption that all people organise their cultural attitudes similarly. Both political party agendas and individuals' education level and religion appear key to understanding variation in belief systems. KEYWORDS Belief systems; correlational class analysis; cultural issues; ethnocentrism; political attitudes; populist radical right parties; rejection of islam Political attitudes regarding cultural issues are an important focus in both scholarly and popular writing and feature prominently in contemporary political debates. Contrary to attitudes pertaining to the economic domain, cultural attitudes concern issues of individual freedom and cultural diversity. Economic issues differentiate parties and electorates that oppose redistribution from those supporting it, and consequently pit the economically strong against the economically weak in the so-called 'democratic class struggle' (Lipset 1960).

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“…When addressing this problem, the first conceptual issue that arises has to do with the multidimensional nature of the problem itself (see Hellwig and Kweon, 2016). Citizens may distinguish between different components and generate distinctive attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policies (for a short review, see Ceobanu and Escandell, 2010).…”

Section: Attitudes Towards Immigration and Support For European Policmentioning

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Citizens, immigration and the EU as a shield

Conti

Mauro

Memoli

2019

European Union Politics

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In recent years, the number of immigrants reaching the EU has grown dramatically. The migration crisis and its political repercussions have been felt with different intensity across Europe. In this critical situation, EU-level coordination has proved problematic due to the nested interests of the member states. This article addresses the problem of public support for an integrated EU immigration policy. Using data from the EUENGAGE project, we explore citizens' attitudes towards EU-level coordination of immigration, and we introduce a set of theoretical arguments that aim to explain their attitudes. We show that those subjects who are more frightened by immigrants and who demand stricter policy and greater protection from unwanted migration are keener to delegate policy competence to the EU in this field.

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Taking cues on multidimensional issues: the case of attitudes toward immigration

Cited by 35 publications

References 33 publications

Mobilizing Citizens for Costly Policies: The Conditional Effect of Party Cues on Support for International Bailouts in the European Union

Mobilizing Citizens for Costly Policies: The Conditional Effect of Party Cues on Support for International Bailouts in the European Union

How people organise cultural attitudes: cultural belief systems and the populist radical right

Citizens, immigration and the EU as a shield

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