Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law

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Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law

Discussion paper / Internet publication

ID	4098715
Author(s)	Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Gorinas, Cédric
Author(s) at UniBasel	Slotwinski, Michaela Stutzer, Alois
Year	2017
Month and day	02-01
Title	Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law
Series title	Discussion Papers Series
Number	10550
Publisher / Institution	IZA Institute of Labor Economics
URL	http://ftp.iza.org/dp10550.pdf
Keywords	migration; voting rights; immigrant integration; crime; RDD
Abstract	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.
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