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Author Archives: Ben Clements
Religious Affiliation and Attitudes towards Immigrants in Britain
This latest post examines attitudes in Britain towards immigrants, looking at differences in view by religious affiliation. Scholars in the United States have recently found significant differences in attitudes towards immigration by religious affiliation. In order to examine whether similar relationships hold between religion and opinion towards immigrants in Britain, here I use data from the nationally-representative British Social Attitudes survey of 2009. Continue reading
Attitudes towards Different Religious Groups in Britain: Survey Data Sources
This post highlights some of the survey resources – available for general usage – which allow researchers to examine public views towards religious groups in Britain. The three surveys used are the European Values Study, the Pew Global Attitudes Project surveys, and the British Social Attitudes surveys.
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Attitudes towards Britain’s Involvement in the Afghanistan Conflict by Religious Affiliation
As well as looking at behaviour and attitudes in relation to the 2010 general election (participation, method of voting, party voted for, etc.), the EMBES survey contains a wealth of attitudinal data relating to long-standing or more recent political issues in Britain. One of these is the involvement of British military forces in the conflict in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Angus Reid, Ben Clements, British Election Study, Christianity, EMBES, Ethnic Minority, Gallup, Hinduism, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Sikhism, War, YouGov
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The Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) – Part II
This second BRIN post reports reports various attitudes and behaviour for the May 2010 General Election by religious affiliation in a series of cross-tabulations, again using the EMBES survey. Continue reading
The Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES)
This BRIN post reports various attitudes and behaviour for the May 2010 general election by ethnic group in a series of cross-tabulations, using the EMBES survey. It looks at interest in the electon, voting rates, how the respondent voted, party choice in 2010 and 2005, and likeability ratings of major and minor political parties.
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Attitudes towards the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts: Data from the British Election Study
A series of questions in the British Election Study taps into views on both long-standing policy debates and more recent political issues. For instance, by using evidence from the BES 2005 and the BES 2009/10 we can compare attitudes on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts by religious affiliation. Continue reading
Religious Affiliation and Political Attitudes: Findings from the British Election Study 2009/10
The British Election Study (BES) 2009/10 has recently made available online for wider usage survey datasets relating to the May general election. The BES has covered every general election, and thus gauged the political choices and attitudes of nationally-representative samples of the British electorate, since 1964 and more information on both the current and previous studies is available at http://bes.utdallas.edu/2009/. Continue reading