Immigration remains a defining issue in modern US politics. While studies have long focused on how cultural and economic factors shape opinions about immigration, this research uncovers an unexpected link: political trust significantly influences support for immigration policies.
Voting rights for immigrants are extended after three years of residency in Norway, creating a unique opportunity to examine their influence on political incorporation. This study leverages individual-level registry data and employs a regression discontinuity design (RDD) around the residency cutoff point. Analysis reveals that early voting access significantly increases subsequent electoral engagement among all immigrant groups.
This article asks whether states’ freedom-of-foreign-movement policies affect human trafficking flows and how spatial context matters. Using cross-national data, the authors test competing claims that open borders either enable traffickers by reducing detection or that restrictive movement increases vulnerability to traffickers. The central contribution is to show that considering a state’s own mobility rules together with neighboring states’ practices is necessary to understand how freedom of movement relates to trafficking.
This paper asks how people form assumptions about who benefits from public policies and shows that concrete elements of policy design can change those assumptions. Using a pre-registered survey experiment, the author manipulates policy features (for example, whether a program includes a work requirement) and measures respondents’ assumptions about beneficiaries’ race and national origin and their policy evaluations. The study emphasizes that these design-driven assumptions influence policy attitudes even when respondents do not report stereotype-consistent beliefs.
Coding political texts might reflect coders' prior beliefs about parties.
This study investigates how large-scale social protests, specifically those occurring in Europe during 2006 focused on immigration issues, influenced public opinion regarding policies toward immigrants.