Browsing by Author "Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit"

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Citation - Scopus: 31
Globalization Threat and Religious Freedom
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd customerservices@oxonblackwellpublishing.com, 2014) Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom; Gizem Arikan; Udi Sommer; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun; Sommer, Udi; Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit; Arikan, Gizem
While arguably central to the human experience religion is a largely understudied component of social life and of politics. The comparative literature on religion and politics is limited in scope and offers mostly descriptions of trends. We know for example that restrictions on freedom of religion are on the rise worldwide. In our theoretical framework the recently higher universal levels of globalization combine with other sources of threat to account for the trend away from religious freedom. As threat to the majority religion increases due to globalization and an increasing number of minority religions freedom of religion is on the decline. Data for two decades from 147 nations are used to test hypotheses. Time-series cross-sectional and mediation models estimated at different levels of analysis with data from two independent sources confirm that threat systematically accounts for changes in religious freedom with globalization playing a key role. © 2013 The Authors. Political Studies. © 2013 Political Studies Association. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 170
Citation - Scopus: 187
Religious social identity religious belief and anti-immigration sentiment
(Cambridge University Press, 2015) Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom; Gizem Arikan; Marie Courtemanche; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun; Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit; Arikan, Gizem; Courtemanche, Marie
Somewhat paradoxically numerous scholars in various disciplines have found that religion induces negative attitudes towards immigrants while others find that it fuels feelings of compassion. We offer a framework that accounts for this discrepancy. Using two priming experiments conducted among American Catholics Turkish Muslims and Israeli Jews we disentangle the role of religious social identity and religious belief and differentiate among types of immigrants based on their ethnic and religious similarity to or difference from members of the host society. We find that religious social identity increases opposition to immigrants who are dissimilar to in-group members in religion or ethnicity while religious belief engenders welcoming attitudes toward immigrants of the same religion and ethnicity particularly among the less conservative devout. These results suggest that different elements of the religious experience exert distinct and even contrasting effects on immigration attitudes manifested in both the citizenry's considerations of beliefs and identity and its sensitivity to cues regarding the religion of the target group. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 42
Citation - Scopus: 49
Social Values and Cross-National Differences in Attitudes towards Welfare
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2015) Gizem Arikan; Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun; Arikan, Gizem; Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit
Studies on public opinion about welfare already acknowledge the role context plays in individual attitudes towards welfare. However the much-debated effect of socially held values and beliefs on attitudes towards social policy has not been empirically investigated. Drawing on studies in political and social psychology as well as Shalom Schwartz's work on universal human values this article argues that social values specifically egalitarianism and embeddedness affect individual support for social welfare policies. Moreover we posit that social values condition the effect that individual ideological orientations have on attitudes towards government responsibility such that the effect of embeddedness is much stronger for right-wing and moderate identifiers than those who lean towards the left. We test our hypotheses using data from the European Social Surveys (ESS) and International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Role of Government module and employing multi-level modelling. Our results provide evidence of the importance of social context and shared values in influencing attitudes towards welfare.
Citation - WoS: 97
Citation - Scopus: 98
The effect of perceived cultural and material threats on ethnic preferences in immigration attitudes
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2015) Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom; Gizem Arikan; Gallya Lahav; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun; Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit; Arikan, Gizem; Lahav, Gallya
This paper shows that cultural and material threats exist side by side serving different psychological functions and that they manifest in differential attitudes towards immigrants from different ethnic or racial origins. While culturally threatened individuals prefer immigrants akin to themselves as opposed to those from different races and cultures the materially threatened prefer immigrants who are different from themselves who can be expected not to compete for the same resources. We test our hypotheses using multilevel structural equation modelling based on data from twenty countries in the 2002 wave of the European Social Survey. The disaggregation of these two types of perceived threat reveals responsiveness to the race of immigrants that is otherwise masked by pooling the two threat dimensions.
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Citation - Scopus: 18
The influence of societal values on attitudes towards immigration
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013) Gizem Arikan; Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun; Arikan, Gizem; Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit
This paper examines the influence of societal values on individual attitudes towards immigration and immigrants. We argue that conflict between individual and societal values leads individuals to be exposed to frames and opinions that are contrary to their values evokes competing considerations and creates attitudinal ambivalence and volatility. To evade ambivalence individuals whose values are in conflict with those of their society rely less on their core values to construct their attitudes. Using data from the first wave of European Social Surveys and relying on Heteroskedastic Maximum Likelihood Regression we test our argument simultaneously for 18 European countries and show that deviations from society's conservation and self-transcendence values lead to greater ambivalence in attitudes towards immigration and immigrants. Our results provide evidence of the importance of the social context and society's shared values in influencing personal political attitudes and judgments. © The Author(s) 2012. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.