Immigration

Eleven rounds of the European Social Survey (2002–2023) are analyzed, totaling 222,989 respondents from 30 European countries. The analysis tests whether personal health is an overlooked driver of anti-immigrant attitudes.

This study investigates how public concern that immigration increases crime shapes electoral politics. Existing research credits an educational realignment for a growing left–right split on immigration. The argument here is different: leftist voters can be more conservative on immigrant crime than leftist parties, and that voter–party mismatch can drive highly educated progressives (so-called cosmopolitans) toward right-wing parties.

This paper develops a dynamic discrete choice framework for multiple attitudes to identify which attitudes are most influential within an attitude system and to distinguish sources of stability and instability. The model accommodates ordinal attitudinal measures, time-varying gaps between interviews, and a multiple-factor structure to capture time-invariant individual traits. The authors apply the approach to five core political attitudes and to issue attitudes about government spending and immigration, preserving qualifications about the roles of permanent heterogeneity and transitory shocks.

Citizens often view immigrants as less deserving of welfare than native-born residents, but explanations remain contested and strategies for increasing public support for inclusive policies are unclear. Recent theory links redistribution preferences to perceptions of immigrants’ "membership commitment"—whether immigrants are seen as part of the political community.

This article asks whether the presence of a country's nationals in major IMF shareholder states affects the terms that the International Monetary Fund offers that country. The authors propose that large diasporas in powerful creditor countries create migration pressures that lead those shareholders to push the IMF toward loan packages that reduce short-term adjustment costs for borrowers. The paper analyzes IMF programs from 1978 to 2014 to evaluate whether borrowers with larger diasporas in major shareholder states receive different disbursement sizes or conditionality.

Immigration debates often lump together non-naturalized residents (stock) and future arrivals (flow), but new research shows native Americans differentiate between them significantly.

This study examines how anti-immigrant rhetoric used by elites affects immigrants' democratic participation. The paper explores the relationship between political discourse and voting behavior among immigrant populations.

Conjoint experiments are increasingly popular for studying multidimensional political preferences, yet common practice—estimating average marginal component effects (AMCEs) across subgroups—does not capture the full variation of preferences within a population. The paper proposes a procedure to estimate respondent-specific marginal component effects (individual MCEs), filling a methodological gap where no accepted technique previously existed.

New research suggests immigration affects public support for social redistribution differently depending on whether programs are universal or means-tested. This study employs survey experiments to demonstrate that while universal welfare mitigates negative perceptions of immigrants, targeted benefits increase hostility among natives.

The formation of the “yellow‑green” Conte I government—an unexpected coalition between the Five Star Movement and the League after Italy’s 4 March 2018 election—appeared puzzling because the partners seemed far apart on the conventional left–right scale. This article shows that the puzzle arises from relying on a unidimensional left–right representation of party positions and resolves it by introducing a second policy dimension.

This article investigates how Americans' opinions on immigration influence their views toward welfare recipients and government spending. Using data from the Cumulative American National Election Study spanning 1992-2012, we find that attitudes about immigrants significantly shape public perceptions of welfare policies.

New research investigates how immigration influences public welfare spending across American states.