Misperceptions | nccr – on the move https://nccr-blog.flake.work Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:26:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Misperceptions Drive Immigration Politics and Undermine Democracy https://nccr-blog.flake.work/misperceptions-drive-immigration-politics-and-undermine-democracy/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/misperceptions-drive-immigration-politics-and-undermine-democracy/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:30:51 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=8091 Many people hold deep-seated misperceptions about immigration, painting its nature, effects, and governance in excessively dark colors. Rooted in concerns about out-group threats, these mistaken beliefs are often hard to correct as people are reluctant to accept contradictory information. This exacerbates polarization, undermines the deliberative tenets of pluralist discourse, and

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