Advancing group threat theory [Elektronische Ressource] : contributions of panel, experimental and multilevel analyses / vorgelegt von Elmar Schlüter

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• Publié par: justus-liebig-universitat_giessen
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 20
• Langue: English
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Advancing Group Threat Theory

Contributions of panel-, experimental- and
multilevel analyses


Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades (Dr. rer. soc.)
des Fachbereichs Gesellschaftswissenschaften
der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

vorgelegt von
Elmar Schlüter

aus Paderborn
2007



Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen
2 Acknowledgements
This dissertation is the result of the last three years which I spent as a fellow of
the DFG-Research Training School Group-Focused Enmity at the Philipps-
University of Marburg and the University of Bielefeld. At this point I would like
to take the opportunity to thank all the people who supported me and my research
during this period. First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor Peter Schmidt
and Ulrich Wagner for their professional and personal advice in writing this
dissertation.
Furthermore, I would like to thank all my colleagues and staff members of the
Group-Focused Enmity Research Training School for the good cooperation, in
particular Johannes Ullrich and Oliver Christ for sharing theoretical and
methodological inspiration, hotel rooms and drinks which made our – various –
lecture tours worthwhile. I would also like to thank Reiner Becker not only for
technical support, Eldad Davidov, Sabine Manke for sharing the burden
associated with the ‘D-word’ and help, Olaf Sosath and Martin Klehr a.k.a the
Computer Squad for saving my data and myself more than once, and Antje Kluge
and Zoe Felder for excellent ‘catering’ and reminding me, sometimes literally, to
keep on running.
Special thanks go to Marcel Coenders and Peer Scheepers who were my hosts
during my research stay at the ICS Radboud University Nijmegen, to Tom
Pettigrew for his expertise on various occasions as well as to Andreas Zick for a
very valuable contribution during the last phase of this dissertation.
I also thank my family in Bad Lippspringe, Wernau and Luxemburg for
supporting me to keep pushing forward. Likewise, I am sure that various
telecommunication companies and airlines around the world are grateful for
ongoing intercontinental communication and interpersonal contact between me
and my dearest wife Judith during the last one and a half years. Judith, your
patience, solidarity and love not only enabled me to complete this work, but also
made sure that I keep on looking beyond matters of research.
Marburg, April 2007
Elmar Schlüter

3 Contents
Contents ......................................................................................................................4
Tables...................................................................................................................6
Figures .................................................................................................................6
Diagram ...............................................................................................................6
Chapter 1 Introduction.................................................................................................7
Introduction ...................................................................................................................8
Scientific Aims ..................................................................................................13
Research questions.............................................................................................13
Structure of this study........................................................................................18
Research designs, data and methods of data analysis........................................22
Chapter 2 Disentangling the causal relations of group threat and
outgroup derogation: cross-national evidence from German and
Russian panel surveys.................................................................................................29
(Co-authored by Peter Schmidt and Ulrich Wagner)
Introduction........................................................................................................30
Group Threat Theory .........................................................................................31
Examining Group Threat Theory in Germany...................................................36
Data and Measures.............................................................................................37
Results................................................................................................................42
Examining Group Threat Theory in Russia.......................................................48
Data and Measures.............................................................................................49
Results................................................................................................................52
Discussion..........................................................................................................55
References..........................................................................................................57
Tables Appendix ................................................................................................62
Chapter 3 Merging on Mayday: Subgroup and superordinate
identification as joint moderators of threat effects in the context of the
European Union's expansion......................................................................................63
(Co-authored by Johannes Ullrich and Oliver Christ)
Introduction........................................................................................................64
Theoretical Models of Sub- and Superordinate Group Identifications..............65
Superordinate and Subgroup Identification in the Context of the European
Union .................................................................................................................69
Study 1 ...............................................................................................................71
Results................................................................................................................75
Discussion..........................................................................................................77
Study 2 ...............................................................................................................79
General Discussion ............................................................................................88
Footnotes............................................................................................................94
References..........................................................................................................95
Tables.................................................................................................................99
4 Chapter 4 The role of group size of immigrants for explaining anti-
immigrant attitudes and discriminatory intentions: An empirical
comparison of group threat- and intergroup contact theory in the
Netherlands................................................................................................................102
Introduction......................................................................................................103
Two Conceptualisations of Outgroup Size for Explaining Anti-Outgroup
Attitudes...........................................................................................................106
Hypotheses.......................................................................................................112
Data and Measures...........................................................................................113
Method.............................................................................................................116
Results..............................................................................................................117
Discussion........................................................................................................123
References........................................................................................................128
Chapter 5 The dynamics of authoritarianism and anomia: applying
autoregressive cross-lagged and latent growth models to a three-wave
panel study .................................................................................................................133
(Co-authored by Eldad Davidov and Peter Schmidt)
Introduction......................................................................................................134
Theoretical background ...................................................................................135
Methods ...........................................................................................................137
Research Questions..........................................................................................143
Data and Indicators ..........................................................................................145
Results..............................................................................................................147
Discussion................................................................................