Another brick in the wall. Immigration and electoral preferences: Direct evidence from state ballots

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The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration

“…11 A related literature also studies the impact of immigration on electoral outcomes (Gerdes and Wadensj ö, 2010;Otto and Steinhardt, 2014;Halla et al, 2017;Harmon, 2018;Mayda et al, 2022;Edo et al, 2019;Dustmann et al, 2018;Tabellini, 2020;Steinmayr, 2021;Bargain et al, 2022). Most of these papers show that immigration is often associated with an increase in the share of votes for far-right parties.…”