Do attitudes about immigration predict willingness to admit individual immigrants?

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 641-665

  Iyengar, Shanto ^a   Jackman, Simon ^a   Messing, Solomon ^a   Valentino, Nicholas ^b   Aalberg, Toril ^c   Duch, Raymond ^d   Hahn, Kyu S ^e   Soroka, Stuart ^f   Harell, Allison ^g   Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^h  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

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EID: 84886616512     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: 15375331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nft024     Document Type: Article

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