Arbeitspapier

Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law

Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants' compliance with the law. In our study for Denmark, we exploit an institutional regulation that grants foreigners local voting rights after three years of stay. Relying on register data, we find causal evidence that the first possibility to vote considerably reduces the number of legal offenses of non-Western male immigrants in the time after elections.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10550

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
migration
voting rights
immigrant integration
crime
RDD

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Slotwinski, Michaela
Stutzer, Alois
Gorinas, Cédric
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Slotwinski, Michaela
  • Stutzer, Alois
  • Gorinas, Cédric
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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