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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23919| Title: | Effect of Media News on Radicalization of Attitudes to Immigration |
| Authors: | Agovino, M Carillo, MR Spagnolo, N |
| Keywords: | attitudes to immigration;fuzzy analysis;media coverage and tone;media news;political orientation;trust in media |
| Issue Date: | 3-Dec-2021 |
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| Citation: | Agovino, M., Carillo, M. and Spagnolo, N. (2021) 'Effect of Media News on Radicalization of Attitudes to Immigration', Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 9 (4), pp. 318 - 340. doi: 10.1007/s41996-021-00091-4. |
| Abstract: | Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Recent years have witnessed a growing aversion to immigration worldwide and, at the same time, radicalization of public opinion on the issue. This paper explores the relationship between media news and individual attitudes to immigration. We run an empirical analysis whereby an index capturing individuals’ pro-immigration attitude, measured in 19 countries, is regressed over indexes capturing the coverage and tone of media news about immigration. We find that pro-immigration attitudes are negatively correlated with media coverage and the negative tone of news. However, this correlation is significant only for those with high trust in the media. In the case of low trust, higher coverage of immigration and a negative news slant make previous preferences and beliefs <jats:italic>vis-à-vis</jats:italic> immigration more extreme, yielding a lower pro-immigration index for those politically on the right, while the opposite applies to those on the left. The pro-immigration index is constructed by means of fuzzy methods to account for the many aspects defining attitudes to immigration. |
| Description: | Data Availability: Data are available on request from the authors. JEL Classification: H89 · J15 · Z190 The Original Article was published on 03 December 2021. The original version of this article was revised [archived below]. Correction: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy [see] https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-021-00091-4 |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23919 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-021-00091-4 |
| ISSN: | 2520-8411 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Economics and Finance Research Papers |
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