The impact of contextual factors on party responsiveness regarding immigration issues

Vrânceanu, Alina

doi:10.1177/1354068817728215

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“…A central thrust of spatial theory is that a party's policy positions are significantly shaped by their political surroundings (Adams 2012). Scholars have found that political parties shift their general left-right positions in response to changes in public opinion on the left-right dimension (Adams et al 2006;Ezrow et al 2010) and in public opinion on specific policy issues such as immigration (Vrânceanu 2019) or European integration (Spoon and Williams 2017;Williams and Spoon 2015). Crucially, political competitors can also exert a strong influence on a party's policy programme.…”

Section: Programmatic Responses To the Niche Party Threatmentioning

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When shifting backfires: the electoral consequences of responding to niche party EU positions

Meijers

Williams

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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Recent research has shown that mainstream political parties shift their positions on European integration in response to threats from niche parties. Whether or not this strategy affects the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties remains unclear, however. Drawing on both spatial and issue competition models of party competition, this study examines how mainstream political party accommodation of niche party position on the issue of European integration affects mainstream party electoral success. Using fixed-effects panel regression models, we investigate the effect of mainstream parties becoming more Eurosceptic in the face of a radical right political party on the size of the mainstream party's vote share. We show that position shifts towards Euroscepticism are detrimental to centre-right mainstream party success when faced with a radical right party that has seen more electoral success. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of party competition and electoral responsiveness in the European Union.

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Section: Programmatic Responses To the Niche Party Threatmentioning

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When shifting backfires: the electoral consequences of responding to niche party EU positions

Meijers

Williams

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…1 Alonso and da Fonseca (2011) propose an indirect measurement of migration policy positions combining various items closely related to immigration (“multiculturalism: negative,” “multiculturalism: positive,” “national way of life: positive,” “law and order: positive,” and “underprivileged minority groups”). This operationalization has been successfully applied in other studies on migration politics (Abou-Chadi, 2016; Vrânceanu, 2017). It enables me to measure the position and issue emphasis regarding immigration of 683 governing parties across 18 West European countries from 1980 onward.…”

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Reassessing the gap-hypothesis: Tough talk and weak action in migration policy?

Lutz

2019

Party Politics

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Much of the literature on migration policy has proclaimed a gap between what parties say and what parties do. The “gap-hypothesis” expects political parties to deliver “tough talk” and “weak action” on the issue of migration. This article tests this idea empirically by asking whether political parties keep their electoral promises on migration policy. The analysis of governments across 18 West European countries between 1980 and 2014 makes use of a new cabinet-based data set of migration policy outputs and two different data sets measuring parties’ preferences on migration. The results show that governing parties enact systematically more liberal policies on immigration and integration than their electoral manifestos would suggest. The purported democratic deficit in migration policy is substantially the result of a limited fulfillment of the electoral mandate by governing parties. Nevertheless, governing parties act upon their electoral mandate dependent on the governing constraints and the electoral incentives. Overall, governments tend to deliver on their integration policy positions but not on their immigration policy positions. The manifesto–policy link is stronger in the domestic policy dimension where governments face fewer external constraints.

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“…Radical right success can also affect the policy positions of mainstream political parties (e.g. Abdou-Chadi and Krause, 2020) including their responsiveness to public opinion on immigration (Vrânceanu, 2019).…”

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Who cares what the people think? Public attitudes and refugee protection in Europe

Ruhs

2022

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

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This paper discusses why and how public attitudes should matter in regulating asylum and refugee protection in rich democracies, with a focus on Europe. Taking a realistic approach, I argue that public views constitute a soft feasibility constraint on effective and sustainable policies towards asylum seekers and refugees, and that a failure to take seriously and understand the attitudes of the host country’s population can have a very damaging effect on refugee protection and migrants’ rights in practice. Bringing together insights from political philosophy, the politics of asylum, and research on public attitudes, I develop my argument by discussing why ‘what the people think’ should matter in asylum and refugee polices; how public views can and should matter given the well-known challenges with measuring attitudes and policy preferences; and what the prevailing public views might mean for the reform of asylum and refugee policies in Europe.

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The impact of contextual factors on party responsiveness regarding immigration issues

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

When shifting backfires: the electoral consequences of responding to niche party EU positions

When shifting backfires: the electoral consequences of responding to niche party EU positions

Reassessing the gap-hypothesis: Tough talk and weak action in migration policy?

Who cares what the people think? Public attitudes and refugee protection in Europe

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