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Anxious Publics : Worries About Crime and Immigration

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In this article the authors investigate the relationship between concerns about crime and concerns about immigration. Panel survey data from Germany allow the authors to examine people’s views about immigration as they develop over time, showing that consternation about crime is a significant predictor of anxiety over immigration. Moreover, it has a greater substantive impact than other explanatory factors, such as concerns about the economy and objective measures of crime and immigration at the regional level. The authors also demonstrate an interactive effect: The connection between these two issues is especially strong among those interested in politics. A confirmatory step using the European Social Survey reveals that the moderating effect of political engagement is generalizable to the rest of Western Europe. These findings establish that crime is a critical issue for the formation of immigration attitudes. They also highlight individual-level characteristics that drive the bundling of political issues in people’s minds.

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Comparative Political Studies

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2012

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English

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00104140

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Vol. 45 no. 4, April 2012,pp. 477-506

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Western Europe
Germany
Anxious Publics
Immigration attitudes
Political interest

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