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Meuleman, Bart, Davidov, Eldad and Billiet, Jaak (2018). Modeling Multiple-country Repeated Cross-sections. A Societal Growth Curve Model for Studying the Effect of the Economic Crisis on Perceived Ethnic Threat. Methods Data Anal., 12 (2). S. 185 - 211. COLOGNE: GESIS LEIBNIZ INST SOCIAL SCIENCES. ISSN 2190-4936

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Abstract

While multiple-country repeated cross-sectional datasets are increasingly available, few cross-national studies fully exploit the richness of such data. This paper contributes to the practical knowledge on statistical analysis of cross-national time series data. For that purpose, we present a novel application of a societal growth curve model (Fairbrother, 2014) analyzing the pressing question whether the economic crisis of the past years has stirred up immigration-related threat perceptions among European citizens. Concretely, we analyze six rounds of European Social Survey data (2002-2012) to investigate whether indicators of economic downturn are systematically related to increased levels of economic and cultural threat. The societal growth curve modeling approach makes it possible to set longitudinal effects apart from cross-sectional differences and thus overcomes the weaknesses of analyses relying on single-shot cross-sectional data. Our results provide evidence that growing unemployment as well as decreasing rates of economic growth instigate feelings of economic threat. Rather than affecting citizens' opinion uniformly, the economic crisis is found to have the strongest impact on economic threat among low educated people. While this study provides evidence that economic shocks affect concerns that immigration is bad for the economy, feelings of cultural threat are not affected by economic crises.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Meuleman, Bart UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Davidov, Eldad UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Billiet, Jaak UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-202531
DOI:	10.12758/mda.2017.10
Journal or Publication Title:	Methods Data Anal.
Volume:	12
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 185 - 211
Date:	2018
Publisher:	GESIS LEIBNIZ INST SOCIAL SCIENCES
Place of Publication:	COLOGNE
ISSN:	2190-4936
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ANTI-IMMIGRANT ATTITUDES; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; EUROPEAN SOCIETIES; CHANGING ATTITUDES; RACIAL PREJUDICE; PUBLIC-ATTITUDES; NETHERLANDS; INTEGRATION; MULTILEVEL; OPINION Multiple languages Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20253