Essays on the political economy of protest voting

The aim of this thesis is to study the causal effect of massive migration waves on political attitudes and voting. I show in particular how large inflows of migrants were able to shape both attitudes and elections historically and also in more recent periods. The first chapter shows that the arrival...

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Main Author: Cefala, Edoardo
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69419/
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description The aim of this thesis is to study the causal effect of massive migration waves on political attitudes and voting. I show in particular how large inflows of migrants were able to shape both attitudes and elections historically and also in more recent periods. The first chapter shows that the arrival of immigrants from Eastern European countries after the European enlargement caused an increase in Euroscepticism in Great Britain. The second chapter studies instead, how an important wave of forced migration was able to shape both electoral outcomes and party strategy in 1960s France. In the third chapter, I focus my attention on a different topic: the political effect of the Labour's economic response to the financial crisis. I show that areas that are likely to have benefited from Labour's policies after the crisis, started to vote more favourably for the Labour party.
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spelling nottingham-694192022-07-28T04:40:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69419/ Essays on the political economy of protest voting Cefala, Edoardo The aim of this thesis is to study the causal effect of massive migration waves on political attitudes and voting. I show in particular how large inflows of migrants were able to shape both attitudes and elections historically and also in more recent periods. The first chapter shows that the arrival of immigrants from Eastern European countries after the European enlargement caused an increase in Euroscepticism in Great Britain. The second chapter studies instead, how an important wave of forced migration was able to shape both electoral outcomes and party strategy in 1960s France. In the third chapter, I focus my attention on a different topic: the political effect of the Labour's economic response to the financial crisis. I show that areas that are likely to have benefited from Labour's policies after the crisis, started to vote more favourably for the Labour party. 2022-07-28 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69419/3/thesis.pdf Cefala, Edoardo (2022) Essays on the political economy of protest voting. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Immigration Voting Far-right Repatriates
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Voting
Far-right
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Cefala, Edoardo
Essays on the political economy of protest voting
title Essays on the political economy of protest voting
title_full Essays on the political economy of protest voting
title_fullStr Essays on the political economy of protest voting
title_full_unstemmed Essays on the political economy of protest voting
title_short Essays on the political economy of protest voting
title_sort essays on the political economy of protest voting
topic Immigration
Voting
Far-right
Repatriates
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69419/