How party platforms on immigration become policy

Abstract We focus on one of the most salient policy issues our time, immigration, and evaluate whether salience immigration in governing parties’ manifestos translates into actual legislative activity immigration. contend that democratic policymakers have genuine incentives to do so. Furthermore, we argue country context matters for pledge fulfillment, find migration more strongly when level restrictions is higher countries’ economies perform well. This research has important implications understanding relationships between economic performance, representation making.