Limited backlash? Assessing the geographic scope of electoral responses to refugees
Jeremy Ferwerda; Sascha Riaz · Political Science Research and Methods
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“We challenge this null result by drawing on granular data from Berlin in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis.”
Abstract
Recent research suggests that local exposure to refugees does not increase support for far-right parties. We challenge this null result by drawing on granular data from Berlin in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis. While prior work in the German context has generally assumed that refugee exposure is exogenous at the local level, we demonstrate that refugee housing was disproportionately concentrated in neighborhoods with young, non-citizen residents. To address this selection bias, we harmonize in-person and mail-in precinct boundaries across elections and implement a difference-in-differen
Abstract by Jeremy Ferwerda; Sascha Riaz, Political Science Research and Methods — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1017/psrm.2025.10061