A tale of two crises? A regional-level investigation of the joint effect of economic performance and migration on the voting for European disintegration

Not so far east? The impact of Central-Eastern European imports on the Brexit referendum

“…This may seem reasonable since migrants tend to concentrate in economically successful, densely populated areas that also tend to have lower shares of leave votes. This assumption is in line with findings by Nicoli and Reinl (2019), who show that migration interacts negatively with population density and positively with unemployment in predicting voting for Eurosceptic parties and Harteveld et al (2018), who suggest that perceptions of and news on migration correlate with support for nationalist agendas.…”

The role of economic and cultural changes in the rise of far‐right in Greece: A regional analysis

“…On the other hand, there is the cultural explanation argument, according to which, the rise of right‐wing and far‐right populist parties mostly relates to cultural grievances (Vasilakis, 2017). Interestingly, there is another emerging group of studies mostly related to the Brexit phenomenon and the electoral success of Donald Trump in the US, which argues for a combined cultural–economic understanding (see, for instance, Essletzbichler et al, 2018; Nicoli & Reinl, 2020; Norris & Inglehart, 2019). The results of this study are significant as they provide evidence in favour of the combined role of (socio‐)economic and cultural grievances in electoral support for the far‐right in the Greek regions but with varying degrees of importance since the former seemed to be much more important than the latter.…”

“…More recently, some authors proposed a synthetic view combining economic and cultural grievances. According to them, explanations for the rise of right‐wing and far‐right populist parties have to move towards a more intertwined analytical reasoning (Georgiadou et al, 2018; Nicoli & Reinl, 2020; Tubadji & Nijkamp, 2019). From this perspective, combined cultural–economic grievances are responsible for the strengthening of such political parties.…”

“…From this perspective, combined cultural–economic grievances are responsible for the strengthening of such political parties. For instance, Nicoli and Reinl (2020), focusing on anti‐European parties (including GD) from five EU countries, find a significant effect of both economic performance and migration flows on Eurosceptic parties' successes.…”

The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism

“…We do not formulate explicit hypotheses regarding other country-level moderators, but we will tentatively explore whether the results depend on the most obvious of these, which is the economic situation in a country. The theoretical argument for this is that intergroup tensions might increase under conditions of scarcity (Colantone and Stanig, 2018; Georgiadou et al., 2018; Golder, 2003; Nicoli and Reinl, 2020; Rydgren and Ruth, 2013).…”