• DOI:10.1017/S0007123417000643
Corpus ID: 158137269

Voting Rights and Immigrant Incorporation: Evidence from Norway

@article{Ferwerda2020VotingRA,
  title={Voting Rights and Immigrant Incorporation: Evidence from Norway},
  author={J. Ferwerda and Henning Finseraas and J. Bergh},
  journal={British Journal of Political Science},
  year={2020},
  volume={50},
  pages={713-730}
}

J. Ferwerda, Henning Finseraas, J. Bergh

Published 2020

Political Science

British Journal of Political Science

How do political rights influence immigrant integration? This study demonstrates that the timing of voting rights extension plays a key role in fostering political incorporation. In Norway, non-citizens are eligible to vote in local elections after three years of residency. Drawing on individual-level registry data and a regression discontinuity design, the study leverages the exogenous timing of elections relative to the start of residency periods to identify the effect of early access to… CONTINUE READING

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