Threatened by diversity: Why restrictive asylum and immigration policies appeal to western Europeans

摘要: Previous research has found that, especially in contemporary western Europe, culture or identity concerns are more important for explaining immigration and asylum policy preferences than economic concerns. This article advances this line of by considering three new hypotheses, which specify how why matter so much. The first two hypotheses distinguish between different that have arisen as a consequence globalization – worries about declining national authority, on the one hand, diminished unity uniqueness, other. third hypothesis holds anti‐immigrant elites play an role persuading public restrictive policies appropriate response to such Using survey data collected 2003 18 European countries regions, study finds overwhelming support second hypothesis. Western Europeans demand polici...