Support for Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: The Role of National Identification and Out-group Threat

By M. Verkuyten. 2009

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Support for multiculturalism and minority rights is examined in three studies among ethnic Dutch participants. Three models are tested for how national identification is related to perceived realistic and symbolic threats and to levels of support. Findings in all three studies are most in agreement with a ‘group identity lens’ model in which the relationship between national identification and support for multiculturalism is mediated by perceived threat. In addition, in Study 3, authoritarianism was independently related to threat and support for immigrant and minority rights and not indirectly through national identification. Findings across the three studies confirm the stability of the results and the usefulness of the group identity lens model for understanding reactions toward multiculturalism and minority rights.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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An experimental approach to Intergroup Threat Theory: Manipulations, moderators, and consequences of realistic vs. symbolic threat (2018, background): “…for more experimental manipulations as a means of disentangling realistic and symbolic threat (which are very highly correlated with each other when measured; Kauff, Asbrock, Thörner, & Wagner, 2013; Verkuyten, 2009) and in order to establish causality between threat and outcomes such as prejudice.”
What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level (2013, background): “…this contradiction have found that multiculturalism increases perceptions of threat mostly among individuals with a strong national identity (e.g. Verkuyten 2009; Morrison et al. 2010) The theories summarised in the previous sections also suggest that, besides individual characteristics, the…”
Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology (2017, background): “*Verkuyten, M. (2009). Support for multiculturalism and minority rights: The role of national identification and outgroup threat.”