Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? The impact of immigration on right-wing voting: evidence from Germany
This article studies whether immigration in voter’s neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany’s major right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AFD) and the decline of Angela Merkel’s center ruling party the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). We use the 2015 refugee crisis as a na...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020-08-01
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| Series: | IZA Journal of Development and Migration |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2020-0013 |