The More You Know, the More You Want? The Effects of Information on Immigration Attitudes and Policy Preferences

• In Event: Brexit, Polarization, and Public Opinion in the UK

Brief Overview

Under conditions of affective polarization, does information shift immigration attitudes and preferences? Findings from a survey experiment in the UK, as well as causal modelling of British Election Study data, suggest sizeable information effects.

Authors

• Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Birkbeck, University of London

• William L. Allen, University of Oxford