The Effects of Immigrant Population Size, Unemployment, and Individual Characteristics on Voting for the Vlaams Blok in Flanders 1991-1999

This study examines the effects of contextual characteristics on exclusionary reactions. Extending explanations of anti-immigrant attitudes from group threat theory to the prediction of contextual variation in voting behaviour, we expect more voting for the anti-immigrant party Vlaams Blok with increasing immigrant population size and unemployment. We test the effects of these contextual factors, as well as individual characteristics and cross-level interactions, over time (1991–1995–1999), using multilevel analysis (i.e. binary logistic regression for three-level repeated measurement data). T... Mehr ...