Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35605
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3779
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of right-wing extremist and populist parties in the German city state of Hamburg between 1986 and 2005. The ecological determinants of voting for right-wing parties on the district level are compared to those for mainstream and other protest parties. Parallels and differences in spatial characteristics between right-wing extremist and populist parties' performance are identified. Our empirical results tend to confirm the general contextual sociological theory of right-wing radicalization by general social deprivation and immigration. Nevertheless they indicate that one has to be very cautious when interpreting the unemployment/crime - right-winger nexus. Moreover, crime does not seem to have a strong significant effect on right-wing populist parties' election successes despite its importance for their programmes and campaigns.
Subjects: 
Elections
political extremism
labor market policy
welfare policy
immigration
JEL: 
D60
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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