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Featured image credit: Indonesian Maritime Security Agency Does information about China’s foreign policies shape attitudes toward ethnic Chinese minorities? When people learn China did a “bad” thing, does it make them more negative toward ethnic Chinese? Some people believe that is indeed the case (see for example, this article, this,
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How do people around us shape our views of redistribution? In a national survey experiment in Germany, Christian Breunig, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, and I find that a high-income social circle makes people less likely to support redistribution whereas a low income circle increases such a support.
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Compared to many other Muslim-majority countries, Indonesian Muslims are neither too liberal nor too moderate. They’re right in the middle.
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Having more inparty friends doesn’t mean that one has to have fewer outparty friends. It’s possible to actually make friends from the same side as well as from across the aisle.
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Muslim-majority countries have poorer interfaith relations than non-Muslim majority countries and religiously homogeneous friendships may be responsible for it.
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Do China’s domestic and foreign policy actions have consequences on prejudice towards Chinese Indonesians? Our study finds that they do indirectly, by first affecting the benefits and drawbacks that Indonesians perceive in fostering close Sino-Indonesian relations.
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