The Brexit referendum and the rise in hate crime; conforming to the new norm
The Brexit referendum and the rise in hate crime; conforming to the new norm
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英国脱欧公投和仇恨犯罪上升；
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2020
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S. Sonderegger
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作者：
Facundo Albornoz;J. Bradley;S. Sonderegger
我们记录了英国退欧公投后仇恨犯罪的急剧增加。我们表明，这种上升在支持留欧的地区更加明显。这些事实与一个模型是一致的，在这个模型中，除了遵循个人偏好之外，个人行为还受到遵守不完全可观察的社会规范的愿望的支配。可以说，公投是关于社会的新信息的来源-在其他态度决定因素保持不变的背景下，S对移民的总体偏好。我们利用公投的这一特征来确定身份。我们建立了一个定量模型来检验观察到的趋势是否可以通过合理的模型参数来复制。我们对一致性参数的估计使我们能够量化共同叙事、国家认同和刻板印象在塑造集体行为方面的作用。
We document a sharp increase in hate crime in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum. We show that this rise was more pronounced in more pro-remain areas. These facts are consistent with a model in which individual behavior is dictated by a desire to conform to imperfectly observable social norms in addition to following individual preferences. Arguably, the referendum was a source of new information about society’s overall preferences over immigration in a context where other determinants of attitudes remained constant. We exploit this feature of the referendum for identii¬ cation. We build a quantitative model to examine whether the observed trends can be replicated with a sensible parameterization of the model. Our estimation of the conformity parameter allows us to quantify the role of shared narratives, national identity and stereotypes in shaping aggregate behavior.