Electoral cycles, partisan effects and U.S. immigration policies

Marcus Drometer () and Romuald Méango

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: Using a panel of naturalizations in U.S. states from 1965 to 2012, we empirically analyze the impact of elections on immigration policy. Our results indicate that immigration policy is (partly) driven by national elections: there are more naturalizations in presidential election years and during the terms of Democratic incumbents. Further, the partisan effects are more pronounced in politically contested states, in states with higher levels of immigration and driven by immigrants from Latin America.

JEL-codes: D72 F22 H11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Electoral cycles, partisan effects and U.S. immigration policies (2015)
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