Why do parties support emigrant voting rights?

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• dc.contributor.author Østergaard-Nielsen, Eva
• dc.contributor.author Ciornei, Irina
• dc.contributor.author Lafleur, Jean-Michel
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-08T10:01:01Z
• dc.date.available 2021-03-08T10:01:01Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract Policies allowing enfranchisement of non-resident citizens (emigrants and their descendants) are now implemented in the majority of states worldwide. A growing number of case studies show that the extension of voting rights to non-resident citizens is often contested among country of origin political parties. However, there is no systematic comparative study of why different political parties support or oppose external voting rights and how this position is framed by the parties. Drawing on a unique data set based on 34 debates across 13 countries, we estimate the extent to which ideology and party family are correlated with the positioning and framing of parties. Among the findings are that the more to the right is a party, the more it tends to support external voting rights, except in the case of radical right parties. The position on emigrant voting rights is largely framed along more pragmatic arguments.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the project Emigrant Political Incorporation (EMINCOR) (H2020-MSCA-IF-660571-2014) and the project Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (post) crisis Europe’ (MiTSoPro) (ERC Starting Grant No. 680014).
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• dc.identifier.citation Ostergaard-Nielsen E, Ciornei I, Lafleur JM. Why do parties support emigrant voting rights?. European Political Science Review. 2019 Aug;11(3):377-94. DOI: 10.1017/S1755773919000171
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755773919000171
• dc.identifier.issn 1755-7739
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46688
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof European Political Science Review. 2019 Aug;11(3):377-94
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/660571
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/680014
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Ostergaard-Nielsen E, Ciornei I, Lafleur JM. Why do parties support emigrant voting rights?. European Political Science Review. 2019 Aug;11(3):377-94. DOI: 10.1017/S1755773919000171 is available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review
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• dc.subject.keyword Migrationen
• dc.subject.keyword Partiesen
• dc.subject.keyword Framesen
• dc.subject.keyword Electoral rightsen
• dc.subject.keyword Positioningen
• dc.title Why do parties support emigrant voting rights?en
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