The New Russian Nationalism Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism

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Table 6.1 Comparison of means test between ethnic Russian and
non- Russian respondents in 2013 NEORUSS surveys on select outcome
variables^12

t- test for Equality

of Means

Ethnic ID N Mean Std

Deviation

Equival

variance

assumed

Equival

variance

not

assumed

Q35. Support expansion of
Russian territory to all
of Ukraine and Belarus
(0 = no, 1 = yes)

Russian 2,060 0.218 0.413 0.44 0.424

Non-

Russian

166 0.193 0.396

Q35. Support expansion
of Russian territory to
all of the former Soviet
Union (0 = no, 1 = yes)

Russian 2,060 0.255 0.436 0.021* 0.032*

Non-

Russian

166 0.337 0.474

Q8. How proud are you of
your ethnic identity? (1
= very proud to 4 = not
at all proud)

Russian 2,151 1.530 0.643 0.097 0.081

Non-

Russian

171 1.440 0.605

Q9. How proud are you to
be a citizen of Russia?
(1 = very proud to 4 =
not at all proud)

Russian 2,138 1.650 0.735 0.258 0.232

Non-

Russian

168 1.580 0.687

Q73. Voted for Putin in 2012
presidential election (0
= no, 1 = yes)

Russian 1,357 0.654 0.476 0.342 0.329

Non-

Russian

91 0.703 0.459

Q73. Did not vote in 2012
presidential election (0
= voted, 1 = didn’t
vote)

Russian 1,906 0.303 0.460 0.001*** 0.002**

Non-

Russian

159 0.434 0.497

Q20. Would vote for Putin
as president now (May
2013) (0 = no, 1 = yes)

Russian 645 0.501 0.500 0.614 0.617

Non-

Russian

60 0.467 0.503

Q20. Would not vote if
presidential election
was held now (May
2013) {0 = would vote,
1 = wouldn’t vote)

Russian 755 0.146 0.353 0.047* 0.09

Non-

Russian

78 0.231 0.424

Q74. Do you think in the last
12 months the Russian
economy improved or
got worse? (on a scale
from 1 = much
improved to 5 = much
worsened, 3 = no
change)

Russian 2,038 3.050 0.856 0.54 0.536

Non-

Russian

163 3.010 0.846

Note: Significance levels are marked , if p < .001; , if p < .01; and , if p < 0.05.