democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …

German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

district for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election … natives due to fiercer competition for jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election … election results and district-specific features to study a potentially causal effect. As the share of foreigners in a district …