01.04.2026 , in ((Politics))
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Marco Bitschnau and Philipp Lutz
You might think that most people have misperceptions about immigration. Yet many false beliefs are merely low-confidence guesses, rather than firmly held views. New Swiss survey evidence shows that this distinction has important implications for understanding public opinion and for the quality of democratic debate. Public debate is quick to
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12.07.2022 , in ((Politics))
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Marco Bitschnau and Philipp Lutz
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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