Replication Package for
“Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception”
📄 Published in Comparative Political Studies
🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140251381741
Authors:
Kristin Fabbe¹, Eleni Kyrkopoulou², Mara E. Vidali³
¹ [European University Institute]
² [Yale University & University of Piraeus]
³ [Université de Rennes, CNRS, CREM - UMR 6211]
Welcome to the README file for our scientific research project titled
Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception.
This document provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, setting up, and using the code and datasets associated with our study.
This paper investigates, in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis, the conditions under which citizens and elites support the establishment of migrant and refugee hosting facilities in their local area, and what types of facilities they prefer.
It explores the concerns underlying counter-crisis policy preferences and how these vary by ideology and elite status. The analysis focuses on Greece—a critical European case—using original data from a nationally representative survey of 5,916 citizens and 586 elites, including open-ended responses.
Using a combination of experimental and text analysis methods, the findings reveal:
- Strong preferences for national-level control and containment in migration and refugee reception;
- The emergence of axes of polarization around the trade-off between human dignity and security concerns;
- These divides are more pronounced among citizens than elites.
This project was developed using:
- R version 4.4.2
- Stata version 18
- Python version 3.7.16