Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Abstract Recent elections have highlighted how electoral cycles are often accompanied by increases in negative rhetoric surrounding immigration. Exploiting as-if random assignment in individual interview dates for the European Social Survey, this paper examines how proximity to electi...
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| author | Dekeyser, Elizabeth Freedman, Michael |
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Recent elections have highlighted how electoral cycles are often accompanied by increases in negative rhetoric surrounding immigration. Exploiting as-if random assignment in individual interview dates for the European Social Survey, this paper examines how proximity to elections affects individual preferences on immigration. We find that closer to elections, attitudes toward immigration become more negative. This effect is primarily driven by country-elections where party platforms are more likely to include anti-immigrant rhetoric. When elections are more distant, these effects largely disappear, highlighting the possibility that anti-immigration electoral mandates are based on artificially inflated concerns of the electorate about immigration. Overall, these results provide important insights into how elections influence issue stances and social cohesion in Europe. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1484452024-01-05T17:49:04Z Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe Dekeyser, Elizabeth Freedman, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Abstract Recent elections have highlighted how electoral cycles are often accompanied by increases in negative rhetoric surrounding immigration. Exploiting as-if random assignment in individual interview dates for the European Social Survey, this paper examines how proximity to elections affects individual preferences on immigration. We find that closer to elections, attitudes toward immigration become more negative. This effect is primarily driven by country-elections where party platforms are more likely to include anti-immigrant rhetoric. When elections are more distant, these effects largely disappear, highlighting the possibility that anti-immigration electoral mandates are based on artificially inflated concerns of the electorate about immigration. Overall, these results provide important insights into how elections influence issue stances and social cohesion in Europe. 2023-03-09T13:09:38Z 2023-03-09T13:09:38Z 2021-06-21 2023-03-09T04:25:09Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148445 Dekeyser, Elizabeth and Freedman, Michael. 2021. "Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe." en https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09695-w Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Dekeyser, Elizabeth Freedman, Michael Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe |
| title | Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe |
| title_full | Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe |
| title_fullStr | Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe |
| title_short | Elections, Party Rhetoric, and Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe |
| title_sort | elections party rhetoric and public attitudes toward immigration in europe |
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