Immigration-related political culture and support for radical right parties

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serval:BIB_DEC0BB3A9787
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Immigration-related political culture and support for radical right parties
Journal
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Author(s)
Baur Robert, Green Eva G. T., Helbling Marc
ISSN
1369-183X
1469-9451
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
42
Number
11
Pages
1748-1773
Language
english
Abstract
Radical right parties are not equally successful across or within all countries. Most studies have up to now relied on socio-economic, socio-structural and political factors to explain these differences. We examine whether the immigration-related political culture – consisting of integration policies and shared conservative values – in which voters are embedded influences radical right voting. We argue that more exclusive immigration-culture is related to more support for radical right parties. Furthermore, the relationship between immigration attitudes and radical right support is expected to be moderated by immigration-culture. With multilevel regression models using data from the 2011 Swiss Electoral Studies (SELECTS) we compare the effect of immigration-culture in 26 Swiss cantons. We find that cantonal immigration-culture (assessed with integration regimes and shared conservative beliefs) increases radical right support and the effect of individuals' immigration attitude on radical right support is stronger when immigration-culture is exclusive.
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