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Change in migrants' political attitudes : acculturation and cosmopolitanization
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1540-5907; 0092-5853
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American journal of political science, 2025, OnlineFirst
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KREJCOVA, Eva, KOSTELKA, Filip, SAUGER, Nicolas, Change in migrants’ political attitudes : acculturation and cosmopolitanization, American journal of political science, 2025, OnlineFirst - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/93667
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This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity-specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe: redistribution, homosexuality, European integration, and immigration. The paper tests the new theory using cross-sectional and panel data spanning nearly 380,000 observations from 104 sending and 28 destination countries. It introduces a new strategy to model cross-classified hierarchical data, addresses issues inherent to group comparison, and pioneers two empirical inquiries into migrants’ self-selection. The results show that migration prompts the acculturation of polity-specific attitudes and the cosmopolitanization of transnational attitudes. Migrants adopt their host countries’ attitudes toward redistribution and homosexuality while developing a uniquely liberal outlook on European integration and immigration. These findings carry major implications for our understanding of attitudinal change and the dimensionality of the ideological space.
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Published online: 11 September 2025