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| Title: | | Crime, unemployment, and xenophobia? An ecological analysis of right-wing election results in Hamburg, 1986-2005  |
| Authors: | | Rotte, Ralph Steininger, Martin |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3779 |
| 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 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081126388 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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