The Personal Foundations of Political Tolerance towards Immigrants

Freitag, Markus; Rapp, Carolin (2014). The Personal Foundations of Political Tolerance towards Immigrants. Journal of ethnic and migration studies : JEMS, 41(3), pp. 351-373. Routledge 10.1080/1369183X.2014.924847

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In this paper, we expand previous research on the psychological foundations of attitudes
towards immigrants by evaluating the role of the Big Five personality traits with regard
to the formation of political tolerance. Following the literature, we elaborate tolerance
as a sequential concept of rejection and acceptance to uncover differentiating effects of
personality on both immigrant-specific prejudices as well as on the assignment of the
right to vote as a pivotal political privilege to this group. Using a representative sample
of the Swiss population, with its distinctive history related to the immigration issue, our
two-step Heckman selection models reveal that extroverts and people who score low in
agreeableness exhibit negative attitudes towards immigrants. At the same time, only
openness to experience is significantly connected to the likeliness of granting immigrants
the right to vote.

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