The Structure of Prejudice and Its Relation to Party Preferences in Belgium: Flanders and Wallonia Compared.

ABSTRACT: We test two assumptions of the generalized prejudice literature. First, that the structure of generalized prejudice (i.e. how prejudices are interrelated) is dependent on the intergroup context. Second, that different types of prejudice have similar political consequences and run via the generalized prejudice component. We perform these tests in the two main regions of Belgium - Flanders and Wallonia - and investigate the influence of differences in the history of immigration, experience of the linguistic and autonomy conflict, and the separate party system and political discourse (i.e. the societal and intergroup context) on these premises. We make use of the Belgian Election Panel (BEP) data that included measures of prejudice toward multiple target groups (immigrants, Flemings, Walloons

SUBMITTER: Meeusen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194513 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature