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immigraton is increasingly politcized
Data: van der Brug et al. 2015 Share of all claims made by politcal partes; LOESS trend
Ant-immigrant populism is not really a recent phenomenon Didier - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Ant-immigrant populism is not really a recent phenomenon Didier - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Ant-immigrant populism is not really a recent phenomenon Didier Ruedin University of the Witwatersrand & University of Neuchtel Contestng the Populist Challenge Malm, 17 November 2017 immigraton is increasingly politcized Share of all
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the focus is increasingly on integraton
Data: van der Brug et al. 2015 Share of claims about integraton (rather than immigraton); LOESS trend
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immigraton has been politcized for very long
Data: own compilaton Referendums and popular initatves; dark = successful; red = restrictve
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immigraton is politcized more recently
Data: own compilaton Referendums and popular initatves; dark = successful; red = restrictve
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immigraton is politcized more recently
Data: own compilaton Referendums and popular initatves in Switzerland
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ant-immigrant = success for Swiss People’s Party
Data: Ruedin & Morales 2017; own work
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 10 20 30 40 Position Vote Share
Positon in immigraton (0–40) and vote share of SVP/UDC
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electoral success does not mean policy change
Data: Ruedin et al. 2015 MIPEX overall score of Swiss immigraton policies
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checks and balances are in place – including other politcal actors
Data: Ruedin 2017
ant-immigrant lef-wing civil society
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Kernel distributon and mean of claims made by diferent actor types; doted = neutral ← restrictve expansive →
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