Immigration and social welfare : political institutions and personal interactions
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Previous studies indicate that there is a close relationship between immigration or immigration attitudes and the welfare state. For example, immigration or citizens' attitudes toward immigration can considerably affect their attitudes toward welfare spending and programs. However, it is still uncertain whether such effects are conditional on other factors and, if so, how they work. I contend that such effects are likely to diverge according to political institutions, such as government types and welfare programs' policy designs, and means of personal exposure to or contact with immigrants. Through applying various advanced empirical strategies to analyze representative public datasets and original survey experiment data, I examine and analyze how different government types moderate the effects of immigration scale on welfare spending, how welfare programs' policy design elements and types of personal interaction with ethnic minorities shape citizens' perceptions of immigrant beneficiaries and moderate the effects of citizens' immigration attitudes on their welfare support. Such analyses could provide us with a better understanding of the role of immigrants and their welfare participation in shaping citizens' welfare attitudes and the nature of public opinion toward the welfare state.
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Ph. D.