Hypothesis: Advanced Western democracies are shifting backward by focusing on their national identity and by supporting right extreme parties, which makes their behavior like new or underdeveloped democracies.
-Why this is so?
-Because of increasing immigration.
-How do we know this is true?
-By examining the Right-Left scale (ideological scale, which means where do people place themselves on the L-R scale, what issues are more important to them)
Independent Variable: increase of immigration in Europe
Dependent variable: rise in extreme right parties in Europe
Control variables: Socio economic status (GDP per capita, and population)
For that we need to get data on the following (the data is available online but I need help in cleaning and organizing it):
1. Number or percentage of immigration in each country in Europe (37 countries)
2. GDP per capita in each country in Europe
3. Right -Left scale old and current status.
Expected Statistical analysis: Linear Model with full interpretation and explanation of findings in words (minimum of 2-4 pages)
Data bases: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Right- Left scale placement:
To see the current scale data on the same database we should click on politics.
http://nesstar.ess.nsd.uib.no/webview/index.jsp?v=2&submode=abstract&study=http%3A%2F%2F129.177.90.83%3A80%2Fobj%2FfStudy%2FESS7e02.0&mode=documentation&top=yes