Voters, parties and representation in European multicultural democracies

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/41176
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-411762
Dokumenttyp:	Dissertation
Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Mannheim
Hochschule:	Universität Mannheim
Gutachter:	Schmitt, Hermann
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:	14 Dezember 2015
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften > Political Science, Political Economy (Bräuninger 2009-) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > GESS - CDSS (SOWI)
Fachgebiet:	320 Politik
Normierte Schlagwörter (SWD):	Einwanderung , Wahlverhalten , Partei , Vertretung , Politik , Europa
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):	Immigration , voting behavior , parties , political representation , Europe
Abstract:	This doctoral dissertation investigates immigrants’ political participation and representation in European democracies. It grounds on the observation that immigration to Europe has increased in the last years changing the ethnic and cultural landscape of the hosting democracies. These social phenomena raise several questions: How does immigration affect electoral democracies? Are immigrant and native voters alike? Or, does immigration emerge as a new social cleavage? Are parties concerned about immigration and open to include immigrant candidates? And, how are immigrants represented in national legislatures? This dissertation is an attempt to provide deep and systematized empirically founded insights on the transformations that national electorates, parties, and political institutions are experiencing in the so-called “age of migration” across Western European democracies.