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Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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Questions concerned with public attitudes toward immigrant voting rights are increasingly pressing ones in the contemporary U.S. context. This paper examines individual beliefs about the conditions under which foreign-born people should have access to the most fundamental form of influence in the democratic process. Focusing on the issue of minority language voting rights, I examine determinants of support for multilingual versus English only election ballots. Based on a multivariate analysis of data from the Election 2008 and Beyond Survey (nationally representative with oversamples of blacks, Latinos, and Asians), I argue that support for multilingual election ballots can be explained significantly by perceptions of intergroup competition and cooperation along lines of nativity and race. Specifically, I find that stronger agreement about competition between the foreign-born and the native-born over resources such as jobs, housing, and healthcare results in less support for multilingual ballots, while stronger agreement about the potential for political cooperation among whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans leads to greater support. I then examine the political effects of specific configurations of cross-racial alliances among racial minorities (black-Latino, black-Asian, Asian-Latino), comparing variation across racial groups and underscoring the substantive implications for mobilizing electoral participation among new or recent immigrants
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Englisch
