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Public sentiment towards economic sanctions in the Russia-Ukraine war
Vu Minh Ngo; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen Van Phuc; Huan … - 2022
This paper introduces novel data on public sentiment towards economic sanctions based on nearly one million social media posts in 109 countries during the Russia-Ukraine war by using machine learning. We show the geographical heterogeneity between government stances and public sentiment....
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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration
Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018
threat to security, secularism, democracy, Western 'identity', culture and values. …
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Public opinion and immigration : who favors employment discrimination against immigrants?
Cooray, Arusha; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Nazir, Maliha - 2018
Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...
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Citizens' opinions of and experiences with government responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Viet Nam
Huyen Thanh Do; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Long Thanh Nguyen; … - 2022
This study explores the impact of COVID-19 and how Vietnamese citizens perceived and experienced measures adopted by central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe impact in 2021 than in 2020. Citizens showed great...
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Contact vs. information : what shapes attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from an experiment in schools
Florio, Erminia - 2021
We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome. Half of the classes meet a refugee from Mauritania...
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Contact vs. information : what shapes attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from an experiment in schools
Florio, Erminia - 2020
We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome. Half of the classes meet a refugee from Mauritania,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306401
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War and social attitudes
Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena - 2018
We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on selfreported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate...
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Weight, stigma, and attitudes toward immigrants
Fazio, Andrea; Giaccherini, Matilde - 2024
Building on social identity theory, we suggest that natives from stereotyped groups tend to value cultural distance more and think that immigrants are not good for the economy and the fiscal system. We draw upon research showing that overweight and obese individuals suffer from social stigma and...
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Kim, Nam-Seok; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …
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Conversionary protestants do not cause democracy
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2020
In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple … development of democracy, which raises concerns about the robustness and broader applicability of Woodberry's findings. We discuss …
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