“…These findings echo previous research on successful campaigns to enfranchise noncitizen residents in other European countries (Jacobs 1998(Jacobs , 1999Pedroza 2013), as well as other studies about the impact of earlier suffrage movements on norms of political inclusion (McCammon et al 2001;McCammon 2012;McConnaughy 2013). They provide a sobering yet hopeful lesson for more general discussions on the suffrage (regarding, for example, the enfranchisement of other groups, such as individuals with mental disabilities, felons, and minors), as well as debates about other forms of immigrant inclusion (such as those related to social rights and welfare entitlements).…”