Data collection for this article was made possible by Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) and grants from the Howard R. Marsh Center for the Study of Journalistic Performance and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Antoine Banks, Andrea Benjamin, and Eric Groenendyk provided excellent research assistance. For helpful comments on this research at various stages, we thank Jake Bowers, Nancy Burns, Jamie Druckman, Zachary Elkins, Stanley Feldman, Rob Franzese, Marty Gilens, Don Green, Greg Huber, Leonie Huddy, Don Kinder, John Lapinski, Skip Lupia, George Marcus, David Mayhew, Tali Mendelberg, Joanne Miller, Ken Scheve, John Sweeney, Cara Wong, and anonymous reviewers, as well as audiences and discussants at MPSA and APSA annual meetings, Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, New York University, Princeton University, and Yale University.
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What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat
Article first published online: 29 SEP 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00353.x
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Brader, T., Valentino, N. A. and Suhay, E. (2008), What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat. American Journal of Political Science, 52: 959–978. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00353.x
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