Does Everyone Cheer?

Besco, Randy; Tolley, Erin

doi:10.2307/j.ctvdtpjc7.16

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“…Parties can take a longer view and appeal to groups outside of their current supporters, especially if party leaders are willing and able to do so. This seems to be what the Conservative Party in Canada has done in the past, in part due to electoral geography which requires appealing to ethnic minority voters (Marwah et al, 2013), and the ability of strong party leaders to enforce pro-minority positions on their party (Besco and Tolley, forthcoming). Similarly, moderate (White) voters may view a party’s nomination of ethnic minority candidate as desirable, which Sobolewska (2013) argues informs party strategy in Britain.…”

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confidence: 99%

Friendly fire: Electoral discrimination and ethnic minority candidates

Besco

2018

Party Politics

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Discriminatory attitudes towards ethnic minorities are widespread, and a common presumption is that ethnic minority candidates suffer electorally as a result. However, some research has shown that little electoral discrimination occurs, because ethnic minority candidates tend to run for parties of the left, while voters with negative attitudes towards minorities are concentrated on the right. This study shows that when ethnic minority candidates do run for right-wing parties they suffer the brunt of electoral discrimination, while those on the left are insulated. To do so it leverages two methods: a candidate experiment and a difference-in-difference analysis of candidate demographic data and aggregate election results. An ideological stereotyping mechanism is also tested, but there is little evidence that right-wing voters reject ethnic minority candidates because they are viewed as left-leaning.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Friendly fire: Electoral discrimination and ethnic minority candidates

Besco

2018

Party Politics

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“…2022). One way or another, with individual survey data showing that roughly 30 percent of Canadians are hostile to immigration (Besco and Tolley 2019), there are potential benefits for a party that presents itself as the most restrictive on this question.…”

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Subjective economic insecurity and attitudes toward immigration and feminists among voters on the Right in Canada

Polacko,

Graefe,

Kiss

2024

Social Science Quarterly

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The recent success of far‐right populism has led to a wave of public attention to its causes. Drawing on novel survey items from the Canadian Election Study, we investigate how economic insecurity, mediated by immigration and feminist attitudes, affects voting behavior. While economic distress has been linked to far‐right voting in Europe, we find support that subjective measures of economic distress are significantly associated with voting for the Right in Canada, when interacting with immigration and feminist attitudes. However, the association only holds for men. The findings suggest that Canada, despite its comparatively weak nativist cleavage, is not immune to tensions arising from globalization and economic insecurity.

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“…This is perhaps unsurprising considering that over 20% of the population of Canada was born elsewhere (Statistics Canada, 2021). When the statistics are parsed more carefully, however, certain fault lines emerge related to ethnicity and diversity suggesting that for some the acceptance of immigration and multiculturalism is conditional (Besco and Tolley, 2019). For example, a national survey conducted by Dynata Research and researchers at McMaster University in 2020 found that over 50% of respondents felt that too many immigrants were not adopting «Canadian values» (Newbold, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%