International Labor Mobility and the Variety of Democratic Political Institutions Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractUsing a new measure of immigration policy and examining thirty-six advanced industrial countries between 1996 and 2012, we seek to explain systematically the variation in external labor openness among the more advanced democracies as primary destination countries, using a model where the government feels political pressure through both a voter/electoral channel and a special-interests channel. With voters primarily pressing for immigration restrictions and special interest pressure aimed at immigration openness, democratic political institutionslike a parliamentary system and proportional representation voting with greater district magnitude that make governments more responsive to voters and less responsive to special interestsshould be associated with less change toward a more open official immigration policy. Our statistical evidence accords with this expectation.

authors

• Bearce, David

published proceedings

• International Organization

author list (cited authors)

• Bearce, D. H., & Hart, A. F.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Bearce, David H||Hart, Andrew F

publication date

• 2017

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• International Organization  Journal

keywords

• 16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions
• 44 Human Society
• 4407 Policy And Administration
• 4408 Political Science

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s0020818316000266

start page

• 65

end page

• 95

volume

• 71

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818316000266