Bücher von Joel S. (Associate Professor of Political Science Fetzer

Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany explores the causes of public opposition to immigration by evaluating the effects of cultural marginality, economic self-interest, and contact with immigrants. The author concludes that being a cultural outsider usually drives immigration-related attitudes more than economics or contact do.

This 2004 book analyzes state accommodation of Muslims' religious practices in Britain, France, and Germany, first examining three major theories: resource mobilization, political-opportunity structure, and ideology. It then proposes an additional explanation, arguing that each nation's approach to Muslims follows from its historically based church-state institutions.