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  1. Citizens’ preferences for tackling xenophobic violence in South Africa

    Article • Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  2. The Importance of Being African: Public Attitudes towards Immigration Selection in South Africa

    Article • Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  3. ‘Dark Cloud with a Silver Lining’? The Prospect of a Rise in Material Values or a Post-Material Turn in Post-Pandemic South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Sociology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  4. The ‘Fuck White People’ Phenomenon in South Africa: A Discursive and Statistical Analysis

    Article • Politikon, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  5. Understanding xenophobic hate crime in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Public Affairs, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  6. The Unconvinced Vote: The Nature and Determinants of Voting Intentions and the Changing Character of South African Electoral Politics

    Article • Politikon, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  7. Associational Life and 'the Dark Side' of Social Capital in South Africa: A Quantitative Analysis of Anti-immigrant Behaviour

    Article • Social Indicators Research, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  8. How ordinary people in South Africa understand xenophobic violence

    Article • The Round Table, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  9. The Grave Challenge Facing South African Elections: A Loss of Hearts and Minds

    Article • The Round Table, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  10. An examination of the drivers of participation in anti-immigrant hate crime in South Africa

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  11. Why do ordinary people participate in xenophobic violence in South Africa?

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  12. Choice of language in education: do we know what South Africans want?

    Article • Language and Education, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  13. What Drives Citizen Participation in Political Gatherings in Modern South Africa? A Quantitative Analysis of Self-Reported Behaviour

    Article • Social Indicators Research, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  14. Who Is Welcoming and Who Is Not? An Attitudinal Analysis of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in South Africa

    Article • South African Review of Sociology, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  15. Minding the Protest: Attitudes towards different forms of protest action in contemporary South Africa

    Article • South African Crime Quarterly, December 2017, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  16. Protest Blues: Public opinion on the policing of protest in South Africa

    Article • South African Crime Quarterly, December 2017, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  17. “The Friends of Our Friends Are Our Friends”: Determinants of Hosts’ Contact with International Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  18. Understanding semantic differential measures in modern South Africa: attitudes of Black Africans towards White South Africans

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  19. Racial animosity and political party partisanship in South Africa: the case of the African National Congress and the Black African majority

    Article • Democratization, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  20. The Hot, the Cold and the Lukewarm: Exploring the Depth and Determinants of Public Closeness to the African National Congress

    Article • Politikon, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  21. Subjective National Wellbeing and Xenophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results and Lessons from South Africa

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  22. Understanding Evaluations of Foreigners in Modern South Africa: The Relationship Between Subjective Wellbeing and Xenophobia

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  23. Shutting the Gates in South Africa: National Identification and Popular Attitudes towards Closing Borders to Immigration

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, December 2016, Wiley

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  24. Immigration policies that include or exclude: a South African public opinion study of immigration policy preferences

    Article • Social Dynamics, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  25. Waiting for the Barbarians: a public opinion analysis of South African attitudes towards international migrants

    Article • Ethnic and Racial Studies, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  26. A Desire for Isolation? Mass Public Attitudes in South Africa Toward Immigration Levels

    Article • Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  27. Pulling us apart? The association between fear of crime and social cohesion in South Africa

    Article • South African Crime Quarterly, April 2016, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  28. Xenophobia across the class divide: South African attitudes towards foreigners 2003–2012

    Article • Journal of Contemporary African Studies, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  29. Individual Trust and Distrust in South African Trade Unions: A Quantitative Analysis, 2011–2013

    Article • Politikon, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  30. Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: an individual-level analysis of attitudes towards immigrants in South Africa

    Article • Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  31. Trusting the Coalface: Public Trust in South African Local Government and the Millennium Development Goals

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  32. Shadow of the Sun – The Distribution of Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  33. Welcoming refugees in the rainbow nation: contemporary attitudes towards refugees in South Africa

    Article • African Geographical Review, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  34. Representing foreign workers in the private security industry: a South African perspective on trade union engagement

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  35. Profiling South African gender inequality in informal self-employment

    Article • Journal of Gender Studies, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon

  36. Globalisation and Migrant Labour in a ‘Rainbow Nation': a fortress South Africa?

    Article • Third World Quarterly, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon