This paper provides an overview of the dimensions of immigration into industrialised countries, its principal determinants and its economic impacts on the host countries. Furthermore, it assesses the state of social and political (voting) rights for immigrants in Western Europe. Finally, it reports findings in the economic literature concerning the influence of immigrant voting on economic outc...

based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

BACKGROUND Communities and nations seeking to foster social responsibility in their youth are interested in understanding factors that predict and promote youth involvement in public activities. Orphans and separated children (OSC) are a vulnerable population whose numbers are increasing, particularly in resource-poor settings. Understanding whether and how OSC are engaged in civic activities i...

In order to research the dynamics of the German model of corporate governance, data pertaining to major holdings of voting rights in listed companies between 1997 and 2001 were examined. The change that took place in this short period of time is striking, with falling level of ownership concentration, dissolving cross-holdings, and financial sector institutions losing their position as blockhol...

This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...

In this article, we analyze the nexus between political regimes and external voting rights. Using a global longitudinal dataset, report that higher levels of inclusion contestation bring probabilities state adopts implements emigrant enfranchisement. Taking outliers from our quantitative assessment, then further examine two liberal democracies, Ireland Uruguay, electoral autocracies, Turkey Ven...

While some countries lag in enacting or implementing voting rights for nationals living outside the territory, others grant them but turning into ballots. What explains stagnation between offering democratic voice on paper to realizing active external practice? We draw from diaspora politics literature analyse Mexico as a deviant case: we expect widespread voting, given extensive state–diaspora...