Issue emergence and the dynamics of electoral competition around immigration in Spain

Morales, Laura; Pardos‐Prado, Sergi; Ros, Virginia

doi:10.1057/ap.2014.33

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“…Echoing parties of a similar ideological and populist flare such as France’s Front National , Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland , Britain’s UKIP, and others across Europe (Art, 2011; Zhirkov, 2014), the party adopts a very hard line on immigration, advocating for the deportation of all undocumented immigrants, the deportation of those who commit any crime, and an end to social policies that serve to attract immigrants (Vox, 2018). The hard-line stance on immigration breaks away from the rest of the parties operating within Spain 4 (Morales et al, 2015) and the lack of political saliency traditionally given to the issue in public discourse and amongst voters (Encarnación, 2004).…”

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Explaining the end of Spanish exceptionalism and electoral support for Vox

Turnbull‐Dugarte

2019

Research & Politics

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The 2018 regional elections in Andalucía marked the end of Spain’s exceptional status as a country with a party system free from the radical right. The electoral success of the radical right-wing challenger, Vox, who gained 11% of the vote and 12 seats in the regional parliament, brought this exceptionalism to an end. This paper analyses the individual-level determinants that explain the electoral success of Vox and the emergence of the radical right within the Spanish party system. The results indicate that concerns over devolution, likely engendered by the Catalan separatist crisis, predominantly explain voters’ preferences for the right-wing challenger. This is true both amongst the general electorate as well as amongst the former voters of other right-wing parties. Significantly, against popular assumptions and empirical observations explaining the rise of radical right-wing parties across much of Western Europe, the results display no empirical link between immigration and electoral support for Vox.

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Explaining the end of Spanish exceptionalism and electoral support for Vox

Turnbull‐Dugarte

2019

Research & Politics

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“…While parties do not greatly politicize immigration in their electoral manifestos, where they do, they tend to take extensive/positive stances (rather than restrictive/negative ones). This suggests that the rainbow nation tends to be extended to include immigrants, akin to what Morales et al (2015) observed in Spain. In addition to generally extensive or positive positions, we also observed a focus on immigrant integration (rather than immigration control), and instrumental justifications (rather than identity or norms).…”

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“…It can easily be expected that this inclusive narrative extends to immigrants like to other groups in society. Studying the politicization of immigration in Spain, Morales et al (2015) highlight that such an extension of inclusiveness is possible, in their case during a period of economic hardship. Hiers et al (2017) highlight that countries with ethnic (rather than civic) forms of nationalism tend to come with stronger antiimmigrant sentiments.…”

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South African Parties Hardly Politicise Immigration in Their Electoral Manifestos

Ruedin

2019

Politikon

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To what extent do political parties in South Africa politicise immigration? We systematically analyse the party manifestos of all major parties in post-apartheid South Africa, using two separate approaches of content analysis: coding all sentences about immigration individually, and coding the electoral manifesto overall using a 'checklist'. Although we can expect high politicisation of immigrants in new democracies, most party manifestos do not treat immigration at all. If parties in South Africa treat immigration in their manifestos, they tend to take relatively inclusive positions, focus on immigrant integration rather than immigration control, and use instrumental frames. It appears that the nation-building project of a post-apartheid South Africa has not led to an increased politicisation of immigration by political parties qua parties, although individual politicians certainly play a role.

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“…Between agenda-setting and issue framing Over the past decades, scholars have investigated the politicization of immigration, looking at the way it has gained importance in both public and political discourse and shedding light on the many facets of this issue. 3 Political actors strategically select and emphasize different immigration-related topics within political and public debates (Buonfino, 2004;Vaccari, 2010;Fryberg et al, 2012;Kriesi et al, 2012;Ruedin and Berkhout, 2012;Colombo, 2013;Helbling, 2013;Morales et al, 2015).…”

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“…This is particularly evident in the Italian political debate (Riva et al, 2008). As a highly contested issue (Boswell, 2003;Morales et al, 2015) in a new country of destination, immigration 4…”

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The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how

Urso

2018

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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Italy is one of the most representative ‘new immigration countries.’ Between the 1980s and the 1990s, it became a major country of destination for immigrants coming from Asia, Middle East, and North Africa. As a result, since the mid-90s, immigration has gained salience within the Italian political debate. Building on the existing literature on agenda-setting and framing studies, this article studies the evolution of the immigration issue in Italy over the last two decades. It focuses on the framing and, more specifically, the position political actors tend to adopt when debating on immigration. In particular, the main research questions are: to what extent is the framing of immigration associated with the traditional left vs. right spectrum? Do incumbent political parties tend to adopt a different position toward immigration than opposition parties? This article analyses party competition dynamics over the immigration issue in Italy from 1995 to 2011. The author carried out a political-claim analysis of articles from two Italian national daily newspapers. Findings show that immigration is more a positional issue than a valence one. Political actors’ positions towards migration appear to be anchored to the old left vs. right dimension of the political conflict. This demonstrates that parties’ engagement within the political conflict goes beyond electoral campaigns. Finally, being in government seems to play a crucial role in ‘softening’ the way party actors frame immigration, in terms of both the arguments used and the pro- or anti-immigration positions adopted.

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Issue emergence and the dynamics of electoral competition around immigration in Spain

Abstract: ABSTRACT:This article examines the changing dynamics of electoral competition around an increasingly salient issue in Spanish politics: immigration. We argue that, although the issue is close to a 'valence' one in terms of the views of the electorate, the behaviour of the three main state-

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Explaining the end of Spanish exceptionalism and electoral support for Vox

Explaining the end of Spanish exceptionalism and electoral support for Vox

South African Parties Hardly Politicise Immigration in Their Electoral Manifestos

The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how

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