Political parties’ position and public opinion on immigration

• Autores: Alina Vrânceanu
• Directores de la Tesis: Mariano Torcal Loriente (dir. tes.), Romain Lachat (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2018
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Lawrence Ezrow (presid.), SARA BINZER HOBOLT (secret.), Aina Gallego Dobón (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
• Materias:
  • Ciencia política
    • Vida política
      • Partidos políticos
    • Opinión publica
  • Psicología
    • Psicología social
      • Comportamiento político
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• Resumen

  • This PhD dissertation is interested in the mass-elite linkages in the context of the immigration issue. It examines, on the one hand, factors likely to influence party responsiveness to public opinion (bottom-up connection) and, on the other hand, the impact of party stances and policies on public preferences in this policy area (top-down connection). Two chapters are dedicated to analysing the bottom-up process. Here, I examine to what extent party characteristics (the first of these two chapters) and party system features (the second of these two chapters) influence the responsiveness of parties to public opinion on immigration. The third chapter analyses the degree to which individual attitudes toward immigration are influenced by party positions and by immigration policies and policy outcomes (top-down process). The results indicate that parties do not track changes over time in the preferences of their party supporters. There is weak evidence that mainstream parties and parties with low distinctiveness in their immigration-emphasis profile are more sensitive to temporal changes in the mean voter’s preferences. In addition, mainstream parties tend to be more responsive to changes in public opinion and in the objective migration context when they face a strong radical right party. Finally, there is evidence of weak but predictable impacts of party positions and immigration policies on individual attitudes toward immigration.