The populists did not attempt to restrict the immigration of which of the following ethnic groups?

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Cracks in the Opposition: Immigration as a Wedge Issue for the Reagan Coalition

American Journal of Political Science

Vol. 55, No. 3 (July • 2011)

, pp. 511-525 (15 pages)

Published By: Midwest Political Science Association

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23024934

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Abstract

The absence of a core means that a majority coalition can never choose a policy that will keep it safe from minority appeals to its pivotal members. In two dimensions, strategic minorities will always be able to offer pivotal voters attractive policy concessions. We argue that this instability of multidimensional politics explains why minorities raise wedge issues and how wedge issues result in partisan realignment in legislative politics. Applying agenda-constrained ideal point estimation techniques to immigration debates, we show that the Reagan coalition—pro-business and social conservatives—has been vulnerable on the wedge issue of immigration and that parties have switched their positions on immigration over the last three decades. We use the uncovered set as the best-fit theoretical solution concept in this legislative environment, to capture the limits of majority rule coalitional possibilities and policy change in the two-dimensional absence of a core.

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Multiculturalism and Immigration: A Comparison of the United States, Germany, and Great Britain

Theory and Society

Vol. 25, No. 4 (Aug., 1996)

, pp. 449-500 (52 pages)

Published By: Springer

https://www.jstor.org/stable/657908

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Theory and Society is a forum for the international community of scholars that publishes theoretically-informed analyses of social processes. It opens its pages to authors working at the frontiers of social analysis, regardless of discipline. Its subject matter ranges from prehistory to contemporary affairs, from treatments of single individuals and national societies to world culture, from discussions of theory to methodological critique, from First World to Third World - but always in the effort to bring together theory, criticism and concrete observation.

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