126 4 important difference between France, Germany and the Netherlands lies in the distribution of responses to this statement. Whereas France and Germany exhibit tri-polar distributions similar to Figure 1, The distribution in the Netherlands is more unipolar, with the majority of the voters (59 percent) answering ten (fully agree) and all other answer categories receiving ten percent or less. Figure 2. Do voters stereotype Muslim politicians? Figure 2 shows whether voters stereotype Muslim politicians. 62 percent of voters expect non-religious politicians to be in favor of same-sex adoption, whereas only 31 percent of voters expect this of Muslim politicians. This is a statistically significant difference. Moreover, this difference is likely an underestimation of the actual difference in expectations of Muslim and non-religious politicians because the experiment randomizes migration background simultaneously. Some of the profiles that respondents replied to were of politicians who were of minority migration backgrounds associated with Islam, migration backgrounds not associated with Islam or majoritized migration backgrounds. Holding migration background constant reveals that voters do indeed stereotype Muslim politicians on the issue of same-sex adoption, above and beyond migration background. See the appendix for all exact means. In short, voters stereotype Muslim politicians as being less likely to favor samesex adoption.
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