Does illegal immigration empower rightist parties?

dc.creator	Solano García, Ángel
dc.date	2007-11-05T11:08:01Z
dc.date	2007-11-05T11:08:01Z
dc.date	2004-05-13
dc.date.accessioned	2017-01-31T00:57:53Z
dc.date.available	2017-01-31T00:57:53Z
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1795
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1795
dc.description	The main goal of this paper is to analyze the political outcome in countries where the relevant issue in elections is the control of immigration. In particular we explore the consequences on the political outcome of the fact that parties are either ideological or opportunistic with respect to this issue. In order to do that we use a simple two-party political competition model in which the issues over which parties take positions are the level of border enforcement and the way it has to be financed. We show that an ideological rather than a pure opportunistic behavior gives parties an advantage to win the election. In particular, in most of the cases we consider we find that rightist parties have an advantage to win in countries where the relevant issue in election is illegal immigration. This result may help us to understand the recent success of anti-immigrant and rightist parties in several countries.
dc.language	eng
dc.relation	UFAE and IAE Working Papers
dc.relation	614.04
dc.rights	openAccess
dc.subject	Illegal immigration
dc.subject	Skilled
dc.subject	Unskilled
dc.subject	Ideology
dc.title	Does illegal immigration empower rightist parties?
dc.type	Documento de trabajo

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