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Immigration and integration policy and the Austrian radical right in office: the FPOuml/BZOuml, 2000-2006

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This article focuses on the radical right's influence on immigration and migrant integration policy by scrutinising the 6-year period in national government of the Austrian Freedom Party and Alliance for Austria's Future. Specifically, it investigates the radical right's influence on migration control, migrant integration, citizenship and asylum policy. While previous studies have often credited the Austrian radical right with policy influence, it is argued that such work ignores both the problematic adjustment of the radical right to public office and the insights of immigration policy theory. By integrating these criticisms into the analysis, it is argued that although immigration policy was restrictive, the policies pursued did not deviate too greatly from past and subsequent government policy nor with the policies being implemented elsewhere in Europe. Furthermore, the radical right's influence on immigration policy was limited by the role of intra-coalition dynamics and the moderating effect of the policy process.

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Series Title

Contemporary Politics

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United Kingdom : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., 2010

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Language

English

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13569775

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Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 337 - 354

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Political parties
Austria
Immigration policy
Immigration and integration policy
Radical rights

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