The 'party for immigrants'? : social democrats' struggle with an inconvenient electoral issue

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dc.contributor.authorSCHMIDTKE, Oliver
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-01T14:53:57Z
dc.date.available2019-03-01T14:53:57Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe German Social Democratic Party's approach to issues of immigration and integration is paradoxical: on the one hand, the SPD has traditionally been the party of and for immigrants', enjoying the support of the overwhelming majority of the guest workers' and their descendants. At the same time, however, the SPD has been extremely timid when it comes to promoting immigration and integration policies and capitalising on the immigrant vote. Using a frame analysis of party discourse, this article explores the reasons for the SPD's unwillingness to address immigration more forcefully, taking into consideration three main factors: the ideological divisiveness of the questions attached to immigration, the tactical choices of the SPD positioning itself in the strategic terrain of party competition and the challenges resulting from how the centre-right and smaller parties have made inroads into this field of highly contested electoral politics.
dc.identifier.citationGerman politics, 2016, Vol. 25, No 3, pp. 249-270
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09644008.2016.1182992
dc.identifier.endpage413
dc.identifier.issn0964-4008
dc.identifier.issn1743-8993en
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage398
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/61528
dc.identifier.volume25
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.uploadTRUE
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofGerman politics
dc.subjectWestern-Europeen
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.titleThe 'party for immigrants'? : social democrats' struggle with an inconvenient electoral issue
dc.typeArticle
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