Immigration Status, Immigrant Family Ties, and Support for the Democratic Party

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ID10763741
AuthorsGeorge Hawley (0000-0003-0489-9730, University of Alabama, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume100
Issue4
Pages1171-1181
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-4941 • E-ISSN: 1540-6237
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ssqu.12621
OpenAlexW2929830429
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited24

Objective I test the hypothesis that immigration status itself is a predictor of Democratic Party affiliation and vote choice, even controlling for other attributes. I further test whether having immigrant parents and grandparents has a similar effect. Method To examine these questions, I created single‐ and multilevel models of party affiliation and vote choice using the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. Results Even after controlling for a myriad of individual and contextual attributes, immigration status was a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of Democratic affiliation. This was also true of the children and grandchildren of immigrants, but this effect weakened over multiple generations. Conclusion Immigration status itself appears to be an important determinant of voting patterns, which is highly consequential, given the large and growing foreign‐born population in the United States

Democracy · Demographic economics · Economics · Grandparent · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Test (biology) · Voting · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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