Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Why Do Immigrants Not Vote More Often When They Are Given the Opportunity?
| Résumé |
Objective: Examine why immigrants are less likely to vote. Methods:
A new representative dataset on the political participation of
immigrants in the 2015 municipal elections in the Canton of Geneva,
Switzerland is presented. It draws on questions from the Swiss
Electoral Studies (Selects) and is enriched with questions relevant
to immigrant origin. Logistic regression analysis with predicted
probabilities is used to predict electoral participation. Results:
Despite having the right to vote, most immigrant groups are less
likely to vote than the majority population. Four explanations are
tested for this gap in political participation: differences in
social origin, political engagement, civic integration and
networks, as well as socialization. Individually, all these
explanations are associated with differences in political
participation, but when all are tested at once, socialization
ceases to be statistically significant. Conclusion: While it cannot
account for the entirety of differences, social origin accounts for
a large part of the different probabilities to vote between
nationalities. |
| Mots-clés |
electoral participation, immigration, voter turnout |
| Citation | Ruedin, D. (2016). Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Why Do Immigrants Not Vote More Often When They Are Given the Opportunity?. Presented at Annual IMISCOE Conference, Prague. - Fulltext https://libra.unine.ch/Publications/33415 (State: 2022-05-27). |
| Type | Présentation (Anglais) |
| Date | 1-7-2016 |
| Evénement | Annual IMISCOE Conference (Prague) |
| URL | https://www.imiscoe.org/ |