Minority salience and political extremism
| Autor: | Tommaso Colussi, Nico Pestel, Ingo E. Isphording |
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| Přispěvatelé: | RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, ROA / Labour market and training |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
d72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking
ISSUE-SALIENCE Lobbying z13 - Economic Sociology Context (language use) Economic Sociology Elections Races and Immigrants Settore SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA Salience Economics of Minorities PSYCHOLOGY Politics Cultural Economics: Religion Legislatures Political science 0502 economics and business 050207 economics 050205 econometrics CONFLICT and Voting Behavior Political Processes: Rent-seeking Salience (language) and Immigrants Non-labor Discrimination 05 social sciences Races d72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking Lobbying Elections Legislatures and Voting Behavior Causality humanities Variation (linguistics) RAMADAN IMMIGRATION Political economy ETHNIC DIVERSITY Economic anthropology Intertemporal Consumer Choice Life Cycle Models and Saving z12 - Cultural Economics: Religion General Economics Econometrics and Finance BEHAVIOR |
| Zdroj: | American Economic Journal-Applied Economics, 13(3), 237-271. American Economic Association |
| ISSN: | 1945-7782 1980-2013 |
| Popis: | This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political extremism. To establish causality, we exploit arguably exogenous variation in the distance of the election date to the month of Ramadan, when Muslim communities become more visible to the general public. Our findings show that vote shares for both right- and left-wing extremist parties become larger when the election date is closer to Ramadan. We additionally show that the change in minority salience also increases the likelihood of politically motivated crimes against Muslims. |
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