Date of Award
8-20-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Political Science, MA
First Advisor
David Levenbach
Committee Members
David Harding; Rollin Tusalem; William McLean
Abstract
This thesis examines attitudes toward ethnic and religious minorities to determine if such attitudes have negative or positive impact on support for the European Union (EU). Using data from four waves of the World Values Survey, several hypotheses regarding the effect of ethnoreligious hostility on confidence in the European Union are tested to determine if those who harbor hostile sentiments toward ethnoreligious minority groups have lower levels of confidence in the EU. Using ordinal logistic regression, I find that those who exhibit hostile attitudes toward ethnoreligious minorities have lower levels of confidence in the EU. Further, it is determined that respondents who live in an ethnically fractionalized state exhibit higher level of confidence in the European Union. Lastly, I demonstrate that the experience of not living in a democracy and not residing in the EU leads to significantly higher levels of confidence in the European Union.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Varney, Andrei Mihai, "The Effect of Ethnic and Religious Intolerance on Confidence in the European Union" (2013). Student Theses and Dissertations. 823.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/823
