Elias Dinas

TL;DR: The authors found that direct exposure to refugee arrivals induces sizable and lasting increases in natives' hostility toward refugees, immigrants, and Muslim minorities; support for restrictive asylum and immigration policies; and political engagement to effect such exclusionary policies.

TL;DR: This article showed that exposure to the refugee crisis fuel support for extreme-right parties in Greece, where some Aegean islands close to the Turkish border experienced sudden and drastic increases in the number of Syrian refugees while other islands slightly farther away - but with otherwise similar institutional and socioeconomic characteristics - did not.

TL;DR: This article focuses on the parties in Greece, which have been notoriously incorrectly positioned by the ‘standard’ method proposed by the Comparative Manifestos Project, and shows that the latter outperform the former both in terms of face and convergent validity and in Terms of reliability.

TL;DR: In his spatial representation of party competition, Downs (1957) made an important distinction between a stable democratic regime and a dysfunctional political system with a high probability of civil unrest as mentioned in this paper.

Abstract: Children are more likely to adopt their family's political views when politics is important to their parents, and the children of politically engaged parents tend to become politically engaged adults. When these transmission dynamics are considered together, an important hypothesis follows: the children who are most likely to initially acquire the political views of their parents are also most likely to later abandon them as a result of their own engagement with the political world. Data from the Political Socialisation Panel Study provide support for this hypothesis, illuminate its observational implications and shed light on the mechanisms, pointing to the role of new social contexts, political issues and salient political events. Replications using different data from the US and the UK confirm that this dynamic is generalizable to different cohorts and political periods.