This article addresses the extent to which economic downturns influence the perception of
immigrants as an economic threat and through which channels this occurs. Our primary …

Recognizing democratic backsliding and increasing support for authoritarianism, research
on public preferences for democracy and its authoritarian alternatives has gained traction …

Conventional wisdom argues that national identity and populism go hand in hand. We
disentangle this relationship by examining how populist attitudes relate to two distinct …

National identity studies diverge on several issues, such as the number of factors and their
respective items' adscription. Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) is the …

In recent years, the concept of national identity has recaptured the imagination of public
opinion research and with it individuals' conceptions of what it takes to be a “true” member of …

For decades, migration to Germany has been a relevant social phenomenon resulting in an
increasing share of foreigners and Germans with migration background in the German …

National identity is widely used to explain anti‐immigrant attitudes and thus the appeal for
right‐wing (populist) parties. Yet, consensus on how to capture national identity is lacking …

Die Integration von Migranten in Deutschland, aber auch in der gesamten Welt, stellt eine
der zentralen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen dar (vergl. Heath et al. 2019). Sie ist …

This article examines cross-country differences in the strength of individuals' belief that their
country is better than most others and the dependence of this belief on their country's …

While exclusionary national identities are widespread among Europeans, relatively few
people vote for the far right in most countries. Thus, an exclusionary identity in many cases …