LCSR Summer School Day 3
Today on Summer School: international migration trends, migrant values, nationalistic attitudes and guest lecture by professor Duelmer.
By tradition Day 3 of the Summer School started with theoretical class by Peter Shmidt which was followed by practical session with application of M-plus.
Three reports were included into the after-lunch session. Veronica Kostenko demonstrated new results of her comparative study of migrants' values and local population in Europe. Her models found out that migrants' values in all the countries in the sample are more similar to values of population of the receiving countries rather than sending.
Maria Ravlik presented her final report on the project dedicated to contemporary trends of international migration and its factors. She revealed that size of population, HDI difference between sending and receiving countries, Human Security Index difference between sending and receiving countries, Rule of law and Common colonial relationship determinate share of immigrants in the country. There is also a significant dummy variable such as oil export.
Boris Sokolov presented a new project aimed at studying factors engendering nationalistic attitudes in contemporary Europe. The question of how relatively higher levels of xenophobia and nationalism are possible in the most developed and post-materliast region of the world is his main object of interest. To investigate this issue Boris intends to use multi-level analysis of both time series data on parliament elections in 29 European countries during 1970-2012 and also WVS data.
The lecture by Hermann Duelmer entitled "Testing the Revised Theory of Modernization: Measurement and Explanatory Aspects" was the final event of that day. It was devoted to methodological issues of testing the modernization theory developed by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel (2005). The general results of analysis presented by Duelmer today showed that societies are aligned on the global cultural map more clearly along a diagonal that reflects economic development and disturbances by cultural zones appear much less important.
by Boris Sokolov