Party competition and immigration and integration policies: a comparative analysis

Kortmann, Matthias; Stecker, Christian

doi:10.1057/s41295-017-0108-8

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“…Therefore, we add measures of the 2017 vote share for the AfD and Green Party. Research suggests AfD supporters are generally hostile to outsiders (Art 2018), while Green Party supporters are generally welcoming to outsiders (König 2019;Kortmann and Stecker 2019). We also construct a measure of county-level immigration attitudes, by aggregating responses to a question about immigration given to all respondents of the nationally-representative German SOEP.…”

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Asylum seekers feel more welcome in counties with more foreign-born residents

Kuhn,

Maxwell

2023

West European Politics

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Section: Theoretically-informed Control Variable Selectionmentioning

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Asylum seekers feel more welcome in counties with more foreign-born residents

Kuhn,

Maxwell

2023

West European Politics

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“…Furthermore, coalition incentives have also been found to be important, especially in terms of whether the centre-right needs to rely on RRPs or centrist parties to gain power (Green-Pedersen and Otjes, 2019). In fact, evidence from comparative research (Meyer and Rosenberger, 2015; Williams, 2013) and case studies (Berkhout et al, 2015; Kortmann and Stecker, 2019; Widfeldt, 2015) suggests that RRPs play a relatively limited role in politicising immigration, unlike more established left- and right-wing parties.…”

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“…This relatively homogenous support base is in stark contrast to social democratic parties, which are divided between working-class anti-immigration supporters, and middle-class pro-immigration supporters (Bale et al, 2010). Consequently, since they do not risk losing support for defending immigration or increasing its salience, and may even gain support by doing so, Green parties are able to double down on immigration and face fewer strategic dilemmas on it than social democratic parties (Kortmann and Stecker, 2019).…”

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Seeking an adversary: The radical right and the saliency of pro-immigration positions in green party speeches

Johnston

Sprong

2022

Party Politics

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Western European politics has experienced considerable change since the 1980s, with the emergence of new parties and immigration’s politicisation. However, no studies have examined Green party discussions of immigration, or their interaction with radical right parties. We hypothesise that increases in the radical right’s vote share, and the saliency they attach to immigration, will incentivise Greens to discuss immigration more. We also examine an alternative explanation that how salient immigration is for left- and right-wing parties will affect immigration’s saliency for Greens. We test this by applying structural topic models to parliamentary speeches in the Dutch Tweede Kamer for 2002–2019. We find that Greens react to the radical right, as the latter’s vote share is positively associated with immigration’s saliency for Greens, although radical right immigration saliency’s effect is not robust. Furthermore, we do not find evidence that Greens react to immigration’s saliency in left- or right-wing party speeches.

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“…Research has shown that political parties change their ideological positions in general and their profile on immigration in particular in reaction to voter markets and public opinion, past election results and electoral consequences – but also in response to rival parties’ strategies (Adams et al, 2004; Tavits, 2007; Westlake, 2018; Kortmann and Stecker, 2019). In other words, party competition shapes parties’ policy positions (Adams and Somer-Topcu, 2009; Somer-Topcu and Williams, 2014).…”

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How party competition shapes ethnic parties’ positions on migration and immigration

Debus

Schulte

2022

Party Politics

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What positions do ethnic parties adopt on issues related to migration and immigration? We argue that, first, the specific characteristics of the party system – that is, if there are further ethnic parties that compete for votes, in particular among the same ethnic group – matter for the policy profile of ethnic parties on immigration policy. Secondly, we expect that the ideological position of an ethnic party should matter for their immigration policy position: ethnic parties with a more right-wing ideological profile should adopt more negative positions on immigration, in particular, if they face competition from another ethnic party. We use regression analysis and a manually coded sample of ethnic parties based on the Comparative Manifesto Project to test these assumptions. The empirical analysis provides support for our expectations: ethnic parties take more negative immigration positions if they compete with other parties among the same group of ethnic voters and the more the ethnic parties belong to the right wing of the ideological spectrum.

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Party competition and immigration and integration policies: a comparative analysis

Cited by 21 publications

References 38 publications

Asylum seekers feel more welcome in counties with more foreign-born residents

Asylum seekers feel more welcome in counties with more foreign-born residents

Seeking an adversary: The radical right and the saliency of pro-immigration positions in green party speeches

How party competition shapes ethnic parties’ positions on migration and immigration

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