A geographically weighted regression approach is used to assess the association of the electoral success of the NPD, an extreme right-wing political party, during the 2009 German federal election with levels of and changes in immigrant and unemployment rates. The results do not support the group threat hypothesis: the immigrant rate remains non-significant in large areas ofWest Germany while it shows a negative and significant relationship with NPD electoral success in most localities in East Germany as well as in Northern Bavaria. Instead, findings tend to confirm the contact hypothesis: a higher percentage of immigrants within an electoral district seems to lead to larger interethnic contact opportunities and thus to a lower proportion of...
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Are voters’ choices influenced by parties’ position-taking and communication efforts on issues durin...
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Nickel A, Groß E. Assessing Regional Variation in Support for the Radical Right-Wing Party ‘Alternat...
Abstract: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative data from 2005 t...
International audienceWhy is Populist Radical Right (PRR) support much stronger in some areas than o...
There has been a long-lasting debate over whether increasing ethnic diversity undermines support for...
During recent immigration waves, nationalist parties increased their vote shares in many countries, ...
A large body of literature has explored the rise of extreme right parties since the 1980s in Europe....
Methodological problems associated with selection bias and interaction effects have hindered the acc...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the spatial patterns of party support at the 2021 Bundestag ele...
Economic Distress and Support for Far-right Parties – Evidence from Sweden. This paper studies the e...
In many European countries, a growing share of population with immigrant background coincides with t...
This study investigates the connection between refugee reception in Swedish municipalities and suppo...
This paper investigates the main determinants of the representation of foreign employees across Germ...
Are voters’ choices influenced by parties’ position-taking and communication efforts on issues durin...
This article studies whether immigration in voter’s neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of...
For more than half a century, social scientists have probed the aggregate correlates of the vote for...
Nickel A, Groß E. Assessing Regional Variation in Support for the Radical Right-Wing Party ‘Alternat...
Abstract: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative data from 2005 t...
International audienceWhy is Populist Radical Right (PRR) support much stronger in some areas than o...
There has been a long-lasting debate over whether increasing ethnic diversity undermines support for...
During recent immigration waves, nationalist parties increased their vote shares in many countries, ...
A large body of literature has explored the rise of extreme right parties since the 1980s in Europe....
Methodological problems associated with selection bias and interaction effects have hindered the acc...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the spatial patterns of party support at the 2021 Bundestag ele...
Economic Distress and Support for Far-right Parties – Evidence from Sweden. This paper studies the e...
In many European countries, a growing share of population with immigrant background coincides with t...
This study investigates the connection between refugee reception in Swedish municipalities and suppo...
This paper investigates the main determinants of the representation of foreign employees across Germ...
Are voters’ choices influenced by parties’ position-taking and communication efforts on issues durin...