A test of social explanations of immigrant resentment - contact, threatened responses, grievances, social … social, economic participation (for natives and migrants) leading to less/greater resentment. (2) Threatened responses are … concerns over potential consequences of certain kinds of immigration and are linked to individual characteristics that increase …

Are governments of the Left more or less immigration-friendly than governments of the Right? Are they more or less … likely to restrict immigration during their tenure (or to seek selective immigration policies). And, to what extent do the … existing work on the determinants of voter preferences for immigration policy and the electoral tensions faced by Left party …

Immigration has become a hot topic in West European politics. The factors responsible for the intensification of …-economic factors and of radical right populist parties. This article explores the politicization of immigration issues and its driving … immigration follows a political logic and must be attributed to parties and party competition rather than to "objective pressures …

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …

international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme … right-wing parties in Europe. Our study highlights, however, that there is no mechanical link between the rise of … immigration and that of extreme right-wing parties. Exploiting French presidential elections from 1988 to 2017, we show that the …