Social Trust, Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes
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2019
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In recent decades, the issue of immigration has started to attract scholarly attention while being considered as problematic bythe host communities of many developed nations. Accordingly, researchers in the related fields have attempted to discover themain dynamics of the growing anti-immigrant attitudes in those countries receiving the majority of the immigrant population. Inthe existing literature, there have been similar theoretical and empirical studies that focus on these relations betweenauthoritarianism and social trust and developing varying attitudes and perceptions for immigrants.While, with high social trust, people are to have more positive attitudes towards immigrants, people with low social trust areto have more negative attitudes towards immigrants, which was a part of this paper’s hypothesis. If the social trust provides moresocial cohesion and integration, it can be argued that social trust has an important role in the attitudes towards immigrants inWestern societies that are rich in social capital and trust. Accordingly, in such societies, it is reasonable to hypothesize that highsocial trust would have an impact on developing a positive attitude towards immigrants.This paper aims to explore the effect of social trust and authoritarianism on developing anti-immigrant attitudes within thecontext of contemporary American society. Based on the data from the 2016 ANES Time Series Study and with the methodologyof OLS regression analysis, the study tests the following hypotheses: (1) low social trust and high levels of authoritarianism havestrong influence on people’s attitudes towards immigrants and (2) the effect of social trust on developing negative attitudestowards immigrants varies by education level. Using the OLS analysis, we find that low levels of social trust and high levels ofauthoritarianism are strongly associated with having anti-immigrant attitudes. We also find that the relationship between socialtrust and negative attitudes towards immigrants is greater for people who have a bachelor’s degree than for people who do not.
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Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
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