Fear and Loathing in Times of Distress Causal Impact of Social and Economic Insecurity on Anti-Immigration Sentiment

Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli, Willem Sas () and Lisa Windsteiger

Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Abstract: The causal nexus between socio-economic stressors and anti-immigration sentiments remains unclear despite increasing evidence over their correlation. We exploit the social and economic disruptions brought about by the epidemic outbreak in March 2020 to randomly provide survey respondents with, at the time of the survey, pessimistic information about the economic and health consequences of the epidemic. Both economic and social stressors causally induce upsurges in anti-immigration sentiment and demand for ï¬ scal pressure retrenchment. However, radicalised attitudes are accompanied by political radicalisation only when the negative economic consequences of the epidemic are highlighted.

Keywords: economic crisis; social crisis; immigration; survey experiment; radical political preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H51 H53 H55 O52 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2020-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-dem, nep-mig and nep-soc
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