Naturalised citizens as voters: behaviour and impact

Wüst, Andreas M.

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“…The only exception is the EU‐immigrants, whose voting behaviors are similar to those of Belgian natives. A similar pattern can be observed among immigrants in Germany, where naturalized citizens of Turkish descent clearly favor Left parties (the Social Democrats in particular), and immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe prefer the Christian Democrats (Wüst , 351).…”

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“…This argument rests on the assumption that electoral choices are strongly economically determined. However, as Wüest () has shown for Germany, socio‐economic characteristics are of some importance for the explanation of immigrant voting but do not tell the entire story. The same has been observed in France, where social stratification alone cannot explain why Maghrebians and African‐French strongly lean Left (Tiberj ).…”

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Migration Background and Voting Behavior in Switzerland: A Socio‐Psychological Explanation

Strijbis

2014

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Research on electoral choices of citizens with migration background has remained largely descriptive. What is missing is a systematic test of theories that can explain individuals with migration background's voting behavior. This article provides such a test on the basis of a post-electoral survey from the 2011 Swiss general election. It is the first study on the electoral behavior of the first and second generation in Switzerland. And it shows that specific migration background impacts considerably on vote choice. In particular, individuals with migration background belonging to outgroups have a higher propensity to vote for the Left than natives. This relationship is partly explained by the party identifications adopted by the citizens with migration background belonging to outgroups.

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Migration Background and Voting Behavior in Switzerland: A Socio‐Psychological Explanation

Strijbis

2014

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…18 While Germany's party system -along with several other West European party systems -has instead been structured by the religious and class cleavages, 19 immigration and increased cultural diversity can be considered having reactivated the 'old' cultural cleavage with different connotations in the second half of the twentieth century. 20 Parties of the political Left have taken a position of general support of immigrants and minorities while the centre-right parties have been restrictive, except for the ethnically based immigration and integration of German resettlers that have left Eastern Europe. 21 If we extract categories of the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) which can be considered migration-related, 22 the expected left -right pattern is only partially visible (Table 1).…”

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Incorporation beyond Cleavages? Parties, Candidates and Germany's Immigrant-Origin Electorate

Wüst

2016

German Politics

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This article is an attempt to shed more light on the relationship between parties and immigrants. The focus of the empirical analyses is on candidates and issues as linkage mechanisms between parties and voter groups. The results do not only point to some changes in this relationship, but also to a few elements that indicate a specific representational bond between the immigrant-origin electorate and immigrant-origin politicians. This finding corroborates the 'politics of presence' hypothesis by Anne Phillips, but rather as a complementary element of political representation than as a substitute. There are significant differences in some migration-related policy positions of native politicians and of those of immigrant origin -in all parties. Irrespective of the specific voter -candidate relationship among the immigrant-origin population, the analyses in this article strongly support the traditional, party-centred 'politics of ideas' approach. Consequently, the political integration of immigrants and their descendants can be characterised as a more general process across parties, and this process is expected to linger on.

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“…20 In addition, I control for whether respondent is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or belongs to some other non-Christian group. While for Christians a suitable political choice may be a socially conservative right-wing party, the growing divide between Islam and Christianity in contemporary democracies implies that Muslims may be more comfortable developing links with secular political parties than with parties that are explicitly Christian (Wüst, 2004).…”

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Political Regimes and Immigrant Party Preferences

Just

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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This article examines how political regimes in migrants' origin countries influence their party identification in adopted homeland. I posit that immigrants are more likely to acquire partisanship in their host country if they came from a nonparty autocracy as opposed to a party-based autocracy or democracy. Moreover, among partisans, immigrants are less likely to identify with a left-wing party if they came from a communist regime. Finally, these effects are particularly pronounced among foreign-born individuals from highly authoritarian regimes.One feature of contemporary international migration is that people move from an increasingly diverse range of origin countries to a declining number

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Naturalised citizens as voters: behaviour and impact

Cited by 37 publications

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Migration Background and Voting Behavior in Switzerland: A Socio‐Psychological Explanation

Migration Background and Voting Behavior in Switzerland: A Socio‐Psychological Explanation

Incorporation beyond Cleavages? Parties, Candidates and Germany's Immigrant-Origin Electorate

Political Regimes and Immigrant Party Preferences

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