The Determinants of North American Chief Executives' Immigration-Related Actions: Racial Ideology, Partisanship, or Ethnic Identity?

• In Event: Executive Power and Policymaking

Brief Overview

This paper explains why presidents and prime ministers took pro- or anti-immigration actions. Based my databases of immigration-related executive actions, the Logit/GEE analysis confirms racial ideology and ethnic identity but not partisanship.

Author

• Joel Fetzer, Pepperdine University