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datestamp: 2020-07-29 13:12:35
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Trippenzee, Miranda
creators_id: S2484188
creators_email: trippenzeemiranda@gmail.com
title: Perceived sentiments towards foreigners: A longitudinal and cross-national approach to immigrant group size and populist radical right voting
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: This research aims at disentangling the contradictory evidence about the relationship between immigrant group size and populist radical right (PRR) voting. This is one of the first studies to adopt (1) a longitudinal approach to the two phenomena instead of a cross-sectional approach, (2) a crossnational approach while controlling for economic circumstances in a country, (3) a direct comparison of the three theories about the relationship between immigrant group size, and PRR voting and (4) the
role of perceived sentiments towards foreigners as key variable. The latter is conducted by constructing an index based on six questions in the European Social Survey about immigration. The results indicate that the hypothesis of fear of small numbers describes the relationship between immigrant group size and PRR voting best over all countries between 2002 and 2018. The relationship is moderated by perceived sentiments towards foreigners, as the relationship between immigrant group size and PRR voting depends on the level of perceived sentiments towards foreigners. Moreover, dynamics within the studied countries illustrate that perceived sentiments towards foreigners predict a part of the PRR voting dynamics and the level of this perception affects the relationship between immigrant group size and PRR voting. This study leaves the question open how different types of immigrant groups vary in their dynamic relationship between PRR voting and immigrant group size.
date: 2020
pages: 65
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Rutigliano, R.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: R.Rutigliano@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Migration
keywords_local: Populist radical right parties
keywords_local: Perceived sentiments
keywords_local: Fear of small numbers
keywords_local: Minority
keywords_local: Majority
keywords_local: Europe
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-27
citation:   Trippenzee, Miranda  (2020) Perceived sentiments towards foreigners: A longitudinal and cross-national approach to immigrant group size and populist radical right voting.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3271/1/Masterthesis_MTrippenzee_S2484188.pdf