Does illegal immigration empower rightist parties?

Ángel Solano García ()
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Ángel Solano García: Department of Economic Theory and Economic History, University of Granada.
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No 06/02, ThE Papers from Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the University of Granada.

Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to analyze the political outcome in countries where the relevant issue in elections is the control of immigration. In particular we explore the consequences on the political outcome of the fact that parties are either ideological or opportunistic with respect to this issue. In order to do that we use a simple two-party political competition model in which the issues over which parties take positions are the level of border enforcement and the way it has to be financed. We show that an ideological rather than a pure opportunistic behavior gives parties an advantage to win the election. This result may help us to understand the recent success of anti-immigrant and rightist parties in several countries.

Keywords: Illegal immigration; ideological parties; unskilled and skilled. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 F22 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pol
Date: 2006-03-08

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