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In: Electoral Studies, Volume 35, p. 215-229
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In: Electoral Studies, Volume 35, p. 215-229
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Volume 35, p. 215-229
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Volume 61, Issue 2, p. 524-543
ISSN: 1475-6765
AbstractIn this paper we leverage a sudden shift in refugee settlement policy to study the electoral consequences of refugee settlements. After the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election, the newly elected right‐wing government made a concerted effort to spread newly arrived immigrants across the country, with the consequence that some municipalities with limited experience in settling refugees accepted to do so. We propose that such policy changes have political consequences, increasing the salience of immigration issues and shifting voters' preferences to the right. We further propose that successful refugee integration can move (parts of) the electorate to the left, with stronger political polarization as a possible effect of the policy change. Applying difference‐in‐differences techniques, we find no evidence of unidirectional shifts in voter sentiments, but support for the hypothesis of stronger political polarization.
In this paper we leverage a sudden shift in refugee settlement policy to study the electoral consequences of refugee settlements. After the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election, the newly elected right-wing government made a concerted effort to spread newly arrived immigrants across the country, with the consequence that some municipalities with limited experience in settling refugees accepted to do so. We propose that such policy changes have political consequences, increasing the salience of immigration issues and shifting voters' preferences to the right. We further propose that successful refugee integration can move (parts of) the electorate to the left, with stronger political polarization as a possible effect of the policy change. Applying difference-in-differences techniques, we find no evidence of unidirectional shifts in voter sentiments, but support for the hypothesis of stronger political polarization. ; publishedVersion ; © 2021 The Authors. European Journal of Political Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Consortium for Political Research This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12857
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In: Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning: TfS = Norwegian journal of social research, Volume 60, Issue 3, p. 300-308
ISSN: 1504-291X
In: Søkelys på arbeidslivet, Volume 34, Issue 4, p. 273-289
ISSN: 1504-7989
In: Søkelys på arbeidslivet, Volume 32, Issue 4, p. 325-343
ISSN: 1504-7989
In: Electoral Studies, Volume 55, p. 131-135
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10586
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In: Søkelys på arbeidslivet, Volume 37, Issue 1-2, p. 124-141
ISSN: 1504-7989
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12560
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