How does the presence of immigrants or minorities in a local community affect racial and xenophobic attitudes? Synthesizing public opinion, economic, and demographic data from the United Kingdom, we explore this question. By taking advantage of cross-sectional variation in minority populations,...

The paper addresses the changes in attitudes towards tax compliance on the part of tax payers and tax inspectors. The research utilizes a series of nationwide surveys, conducted initially in 2001 and repeated in 2008. The findings demonstrate that lower level inspectors initially had divergent...

A growing conventional wisdom holds that while the Muslim American community is largely integrated into the mainstream of American life, Europe’s Muslims remain a community set apart, and may pose a dangerous source of home-grown terrorism. This paper uses polling conducted by the Pew Research...