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We begin the presentation of our empirical analysis of the potential influences of cultural differences on public opinion of various facets of globalization. Specifically, we employ the empirical specification and estimation strategy that are presented in Chap. 5 to consider how cultural differences between survey respondents’ countries of residence and both the source countries of their immigrant populations and the host countries of emigrants from their countries of residence may influence responses to a set of four survey questions about immigrants and immigration. Our data set includes responses from individuals in six countries (i.e., France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK).
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White, R. (2017). Lessons from Six European Host Countries: Does Cultural Distance Influence Opinions on Immigration?. In: Public Opinion on Economic Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58103-3_6
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