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Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants' rights to demonstrate

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  • Traunmüller, Richard
  • Helbling, Marc

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Focusing on one specific aspect of immigrant political integration—how authorities deal with their political right to demonstrate—we show in a large-scale survey experiment that liberal policy decisions permitting demonstrations lead to a polarization in attitudes: citizens who agree with a permission become more sympathetic, while those in favor of banning become more critical of immigrants. This notion of opinion backlash to policy decisions adds a new perspective to the literature on immigration attitudes which has either assumed a congruence between public opinion and policy or ignored political sources of anti-immigrant sentiment altogether. By exploring the unintended consequences of policy decisions, we provide an alternative view and demonstrate the inherent dilemma of balancing citizen opinion and minority rights.

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  • Traunmüller, Richard & Helbling, Marc, 2022. "Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants' rights to demonstrate," Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(2), pages 279-297, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:pscirm:v:10:y:2022:i:2:p:279-297_4
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