Abstract

Are politicians more responsive to foreign citizens if they have the right to vote? To examine this question, we exploit regional variation in voting rights for foreign citizens in Switzerland. Our original audit experiments find no evidence that local politicians are more responsive to foreign citizens depending on whether foreign citizens have the right to vote. Another survey suggests that local politicians are not strongly motivated by reelection. Although our findings are preliminary, given the small sample size, they may indicate that responsiveness at the local level may differ from the national level.

中文翻译：

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当地政客对移民的反应并不因投票权而系统性地变化

摘要

如果政治家有投票权，他们是否会对外国公民更加敏感？为了研究这个问题，我们利用瑞士外国公民投票权的地区差异。我们最初的审计实验没有发现任何证据表明当地政客对外国公民的反应更积极取决于外国公民是否有投票权。另一项调查显示，当地政客的连任动机并不强烈。尽管我们的研究结果是初步的，但鉴于样本量较小，它们可能表明地方一级的响应能力可能与国家一级不同。