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Rafaela Dancygier
I study the relationship between ethnic diversity and redistribution, the economic and political integration of immigrants, and the welfare state. I am currently working on a book which explores how immigration regimes and welfare states impact interethnic conflict and immigrant integration in Western Europe. Recent publications include an article in the American Journal of Political Science (2006, with E. Saunders), which compares partisan identification and preferences toward social spending and redistribution between immigrants and natives in Great Britain and Germany as well as two chapters about the political implications of immigration in France and Great Britain in Racism, Xenophobia, and Redistribution (Harvard University Press 2007). Visit WebsitePublications Racism, Xenophobia and Distribution
From the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" in the U.S. to the rise of Le Pen's National Front in France, conservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. In this book, the authors construct a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution. They find that the Right is able to push fiscal policies that hurt working and middle class citizens by attracting voters who may be liberal on economic issues but who hold conservative views on race or immigration. |
