Immigration and electoral support for the far left and the far right

Anthony Edo, Yvonne Giesing, Jonathan Öztunc, Panu Poutvaara

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right parties in France, using panel data on presidential elections from 1988 to 2012. To derive causal estimates, we instrument more recent immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has no robust effect on far-left voting. The increased support for far-right candidates is driven by low educated immigrants from non-Western countries.

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Year of publication:	December 2017
Authors:	Edo, Anthony ; Giesing, Yvonne ; Öztunc, Jonathan ; Poutvaara, Panu
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Subject:	Voting \| immigration \| political economy \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Einwanderung \| Immigration \| Neue politische Ökonomie \| Public choice \| Migrationspolitik \| Immigration policy

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 52 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Ifo working papers. - Munich : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2681107-8. - Vol. 244 (2017)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/176864 [Handle]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; F22 - International Migration ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; P16 - Political Economy
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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