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Minority groups and success in election primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810012
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Minority groups and success in election primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131239
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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown. Analysis using unique micro data collected prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272285
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Immigration and election outcomes: Evidence from city districts in Hamburg
Otto, Alkis Henri; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012
significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner shares on the electoral success of parties that built up a distinctive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309042
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Immigration and election outcomes : evidence from city districts in Hamburg
Otto, Alkis Henri; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012
significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner shares on the electoral success of parties that built up a distinctive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546904
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Immigration and election outcomes : evidence from city districts in Hamburg
Otto, Alkis Henri; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012
significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner shares on the electoral success of parties that built up a distinctive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530215
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Socio-spatial transformations, suburbanisation, and voting behaviour in the Vilnius urban region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; Ham, Maarten van - 2012
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668313
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Ethnic concentration and extreme right-wing voting behaviour in West Germany
Dill, Verena - 2013
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative data from 1996 to 2009, I investigate the question whether or not right-wing extremism of German residents is affected by the ethnic concentration of foreigners living in the same residential area. My results show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356455
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Exposure to refugees and voting for the far-right : (unexpected) results from Austria
Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016
This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454016
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Immigration, cultural distance and natives' attitudes towards immigrants : evidence from Swiss voting results
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2014
We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398737