Do national political parties matter? Evidence from Italian municipalities
In: European Journal of Political Economy, Band 63, S. 101862
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In: European Journal of Political Economy, Band 63, S. 101862
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Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered elections, enables me to study the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees. Although municipalities receive fiscal grants for hosting refugees, electoral incentives reduce the probability of opening a refugee centre by 24 per cent. The effect is driven by voters' misperceptions of immigrants and by extreme-right political preferences. The results explain why is difficult to reach an equal redistribution of refugees across and within countries.
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 7212
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In: JPUBE-D-21-01567
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In: European journal of political economy, Band 81, S. 102480
ISSN: 1873-5703
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In: Political science research and methods: PSRM, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 129-143
ISSN: 2049-8489
AbstractLarge migrant inflows have spurred anti-immigrant sentiment, but can small inflows have a different impact? We exploit the redistribution of migrants after the dismantling of the "Calais Jungle" in France to study the impact of the exposure to few migrants, which we estimate using difference-in-differences and instrumental variables. We find that in the presence of a migrant center (CAO), the growth rate of vote shares for the main far-right party (Front National (FN), our proxy for anti-immigrant sentiment) between 2012 and 2017 is reduced by about 12 percentage points. This effect, which crucially depends on the inflow's size, points toward the contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954).
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In: BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 2021-157
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14896
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