IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/pscirm/v6y2018i04p837-845_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

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

Author

Listed:
  • de Rooij, Eline A.
  • Goodwin, Matthew J.
  • Pickup, Mark

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.

Suggested Citation

  • de Rooij, Eline A. & Goodwin, Matthew J. & Pickup, Mark, 2018. "A Research Note: The Differential Impact of Threats on Ethnic Prejudice Toward Three Minority Groups in Britain," Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(4), pages 837-845, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:pscirm:v:6:y:2018:i:04:p:837-845_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2049847017000243/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Macarena Vallejo-Martín & Jesús M. Canto & Jesús E. San Martín García & Fabiola Perles Novas, 2020. "Prejudice and Feeling of Threat towards Syrian Refugees: The Moderating Effects of Precarious Employment and Perceived Low Outgroup Morality," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-12, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:pscirm:v:6:y:2018:i:04:p:837-845_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/ram .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.