Democratic Involvement and Immigrants’ Compliance with the Law

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer and Cédric Gorinas ()

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

Abstract: In the face of migration and concerns about integration, we investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants’ compliance with the law. In our study for Denmark, we exploit an institutional regulation that grants foreigners local voting rights after three years of stay. Relying on register data, we find causal evidence that the first possibility to vote considerably reduces the number of legal offenses of non-Western male immigrants in the time after elections.

JEL-codes: D02 J15 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-law, nep-mig and nep-pol
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