Pre-Analysis Plan for Public Attitudes toward Asylum-Seekers and Asylum Policies across Europe

Summary: Does the willingness of European voters to welcome asylum-seekers in their municipalities vary as a function of the specific attributes of the claimants (e.g. country of origin, education, reason for fleeing)? And to what extent do voters' preferences over specific features of asylum policies vary across the different countries in Europe? To address these questions, we field a large-scale survey experiment among 15,000 voters in fifteen European countries. Based on these unique data, we assess the extent to which respondents’ social dispositions, partisan orientation and ideology correlates with attitudes towards asylum-seekers, and measure the impact of specific characteristics of asylum-seekers and asylum policies on public support.