التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany's Eastern Regions |
| المؤلفون: |
Schaub, Max, Gereke, Johanna, Baldassarri, Delia |
| المصدر: |
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters. 54(3-4):686-717 |
| سنة النشر: |
2021 |
| الوصف: |
Does local exposure to refugees increase right-wing support? This paper studies a case uniquely suited to address this question: the allocation of refugees to the rural hinterlands of eastern Germany during the European refugee crisis. Similar to non-urban regions elsewhere, the area has had minimal previous exposure to foreigners, but distinctively leans towards the political right. Our data comprise electoral outcomes, and individual-level survey and behavioral measures. A policy allocating refugees following strict administrative rules and a matching procedure allow for causal identification. Our measurements confirm the presence of widespread anti-immigrant sentiments. However, these are unaffected by the presence of refugees in respondents’ hometowns: on average, we record null effects for all outcomes, which we interpret as supporting a sociotropic perspective on immigration attitudes. Masked by these overall null findings, we observe convergence: local exposure to refugees appears to have pulled both right- and left-leaning individuals more towards the center. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
redif-article |
| اللغة: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1177/0010414020957675 |
| الإتاحة: |
https://ideas.repec.org/a/zbw/espost/227775.html |
| رقم الأكسشن: |
edsrep.a.zbw.espost.227775 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
RePEc |
