Low expectations or different evaluations – What explains immigrants’ high levels of trust in host country institutions?

Several recent studies show that immigrants exhibit higher levels of trust in public institutions than natives. This study uses pooled data from the European Social Survey to examine possible reasons for this ‘over-confidence’ of immigrants, arguing that it is largely the relatively lower expectatio...

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Main Authors:	Röder, Antje, Mühlau, Peter
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2012
Subjects:	institutions expectations trust Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie confidence migration Migration Social sciences
Online Access:	PDF Full Text
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