This paper presents data and analysis suggesting that immigration as an issue has ramified on to a broader policy agenda than "just" immigration. We show that, controlling for a wide range of political and demographic variables, those who say that immigration is the most important problem facing...

Abstract Voters in California counties have been asked to approve transportation sales taxes on over 75 different occasions, and according to the Legislative Analyst, revenues from local option transportation sales taxes accounted for 15% of all revenues raised statewide for transportation...

A survey of prior research testing the threat and contact hypotheses uncovers a wide, often conflicting, range of conclusions regarding the influence of contexts on attitudes. Through a reanalysis (verification and replication) of publicly available data we test the threat/contact hypotheses by...