Tough positions, trustful voters? How mainstream party position-taking on immigration shapes political trust and its impact on far-right voting

Geese, Lucas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5085-5029 (2024) Tough positions, trustful voters? How mainstream party position-taking on immigration shapes political trust and its impact on far-right voting. Government and Opposition. ISSN 0017-257X

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Abstract

Mainstream parties have taken increasingly restrictive immigration policy positions across Western Europe. Yet the political consequences of this behaviour for citizens' democratic norms and practices are still not well understood. This article focuses on public political trust. Bridging the literatures on immigration-related trust and spatial theory, the spotlight is put on the consequences of mainstream party position-taking on immigration for the interconnectedness of citizens' immigration policy preferences, political distrust and far-right voting. An analysis of data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey and European Social Survey across 14 Western European democracies (2006–2018) suggests that tougher immigration positions of centre-right parties in government weaken the link between immigration scepticism and political distrust and, in turn, the relevance of political distrust as a precursor of far-right voting. This has important implications for our understanding of immigration politics and advances the existing literatures on party competition, political trust and far-right voting in several ways.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Supplementary material: The supplementary material for this article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.6.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 10 - reduced inequalities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2024 16:30
Last Modified:	11 Apr 2024 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94871
DOI:	10.1017/gov.2024.6

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