When Immigration Hurts: Voter Accountability for Far-Right Governments

• In Event: Populism, Nationalism, and the New Right in Europe

Brief Overview

Using a vignette survey experiment in Italy governed by G. Meloni, I demonstrate that immigration does not always fuel the far right: exposure to information about increasing immigration erodes citizens' attitudes towards the far right in office.

Author

• Konstantin Bogatyrev, Bocconi University