The Rise of the Far-Right Movement in Sweden : an Analysis of the Political Effects of an Increase in the Shre of Asylum Seekers.

This thesis investigates how a change in the municipal asylum seeker share affects voting for the Sweden Democrats (SD), a far-right anti-immigration party, in both national Parliament and Municipal Council elections in Sweden. To circumvent the endogeneity problem, I use an instrumental variables s...

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Main Author: Lindén, Linnéa
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2021
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-450387