A Research Note: The Differential Impact of Threats on Ethnic Prejudice Toward Three Minority Groups in Britain

Eline A. de Rooij, Matthew J. Goodwin and Mark Pickup

Political Science Research and Methods, 2018, vol. 6, issue 4, 837-845

Abstract: In this research note we replicate, update and expand innovative research by Sniderman et al. conducted in the Netherlands in the late 1990s, and ask whether the relative primacy of cultural compared with economic and safety threats in explaining ethnic prejudice remains true under markedly different national, economic and political contexts. Using two national British surveys conducted in 2011 and 2016, we examine the impact of threat on hostility toward three minority groups. Our results confirm the primacy of cultural threat as the strongest and most consistent predictor of hostility, while demonstrating the more context-specific effects of safety and economic concerns, with safety threats playing an overall more prominent role and increased economic concerns being related to less hostility post-Brexit.

Date: 2018
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