{"id":33644,"date":"2021-05-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=33644"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:00:00","slug":"power-sharing-at-the-local-level-evidence-on-opting-in-for-non-citizen-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=33644","title":{"rendered":"Power sharing at the local level: evidence on opting-in for non-citizen voting rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Alois Stutzer, Michaela Slotwinski<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10602-020-09322-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10602-020-09322-6<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">&#8220;The enfranchisement of foreigners is likely one of the most controversial frontiers of institutional change in developed democracies, which are experiencing an increasing number of non-citizen residents. We study the conditions under which citizens are willing to share power with non-citizens. To this end, we exploit the setting of the Swiss canton of Grisons, where municipalities are free to decide on the introduction of non-citizen voting rights at the local level (a so called opting-in regime). Consistent with the power dilution hypothesis, we find that enfranchisement is less likely when the share of resident foreigners is large. Moreover, municipalities with a large language\/cultural minority are less likely to formally involve foreigners. In contrast, municipality mergers seem to act as an institutional catalyst, promoting democratic reforms. A supplementary panel analysis on electoral support for an opting-in regime in the canton of Zurich also backs the power dilution hypothesis, showing that a larger share of foreigners reduces support for an extension of voting rights.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Non-citizen voting rights, Opting-in, Power sharing, Democratization<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Alois Stutzer, Michaela Slotwinski Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10602-020-09322-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[654,7,273,70,252,9,28,488,123,94,96,72,246],"class_list":["post-33644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-654","tag-article","tag-cantons","tag-citizenship","tag-democracy","tag-english-language","tag-foreigners","tag-graubunden","tag-political-participation","tag-political-system","tag-voting-behaviour","tag-voting-rights","tag-zurich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}