Ethnic voting in Brussels: Voting patterns among ethnic minorities in Brussels (Belgium) during the 2006 local elections
Ethnic voting in Brussels: Voting patterns among ethnic minorities in Brussels (Belgium) during the 2006 local elections
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布鲁塞尔的种族投票：2006 年地方选举期间布鲁塞尔（比利时）少数民族的投票模式
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2010
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Pascal Delwit
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Céline Teney;D. Jacobs;A. Rea;Pascal Delwit
近年来，移民出身的少数民族已成为比利时城市中不可忽视的选举群体。比利时对移民社团生活与政治参与之间的联系以及移民出身的政治家的情况进行了大量研究，但尚未对少数民族群体的政党选择和投票模式进行研究。在这篇文章中，我们提出了在比利时的少数民族群体的投票模式的第一次分析，利用出口民调数据的布鲁塞尔首都地区的三个城市的地方选举。我们调查非欧盟移民出身的选民是否有一个特定的政党的偏好，不能解释其他背景变量，如教育水平或社会经济地位。我们还研究了移民出身的候选人优先投票的问题。根据政治机会结构的理论，人们会期望在比利时的背景下（其中民族动员是discursively劝阻），民族投票的重要性较低。然而，在布鲁塞尔的背景下，种族投票变得相当重要。
In recent years immigrant origin ethnic minorities have become a non-negligible electoral group in Belgian cities. Numerous studies have been undertaken in Belgium on the link between immigrant associational life and political participation and on the profiles of politicians of immigrant origin, but not yet on party choice and voting patterns among ethnic minority groups. In this article, we present the first analysis of voting patterns of ethnic minority groups in Belgium, making use of exit poll data on the local elections for three municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region. We investigate whether non-EU immigrant origin voters have a particular party preference which cannot be explained by other background variables such as educational level or socio-economic position. We also look into the issue of preferential voting for candidates of immigrant origin. According to the theory on political opportunity structures, one would expect a lesser importance of ethnic voting in the Belgian context (in which ethnic mobilisation is discursively discouraged). Ethnic voting, however, turns out to be quite important in the Brussels’ context.