Are Labour party politicians anti-Semitic, and are Conservative Islamophobic? In this correspondence study we measure the responsiveness of elected local representatives in United Kingdom to requests from putative constituents minority religious groups. We send short email 10,268 government each main political parties, stereotypically Islamic, Jewish, Christian names. Response rates six seven p...

Because of their higher status, members of national majorities (e.g., linguistic, ethnic, or religious) are likely to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the nation than members of national minorities (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, Pratto, 1997), which is reflected in a stronger attachment to the nation as a whole (e.g., Staerklé, Sidanius, Green, Molina, 2010). Accordingly, members of nation...

Using a gravity model of trade and the U.S. and Chinese panel data, I present evidence that supports the views that linguistic links have become more important in foreign trade than geographical proximity and that linguistic influence on trade is more significant in China than in the U.S. The estimated result based on a broad panel of economies shows little overall relation between religious si...