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Voter preferences for EU asylum policies : the role of government cues
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Government and opposition, 2024, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 888-910
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KRIESI, Hanspeter, VRÂNCEANU, Alina, Voter preferences for EU asylum policies : the role of government cues, Government and opposition, 2024, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 888-910 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76231
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We study whether and how governments influence public opinion about immigration policies in Europe. At the European level, conflicts about policy are generally territorial in nature – that is, they involve conflicts between member states, which are represented by their governments. Distinguishing between four types of situations, depending on whether the national governments support or oppose EU policy proposals, we formulate and test hypotheses concerning the positions of incumbent and opposition voters/non-voters on four different asylum-policy proposals in 16 European countries. We test both direct effects of incumbent cues on voters' preferences, and moderating effects, where the cueing affects the way in which individual attitudes to immigration and European integration translate into specific preferences for EU asylum and immigration policies. Our results suggest that voters, indeed, follow the cues provided by their governments when forming their preferences on EU policies.
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Published online: 20 November 2023
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)