It’s because of the cross-border commuters: opposing the free movement of persons in the Swiss borderlands with the European Union

Laurent Bernhard, Lukas Lauener
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Scholarly work on populism and borders have largely followed separate paths so far. This article aims at bringing together these two strands by means of an empirical analysis of individual attitudes on a re-bordering policy in the context of a national-populist mobilization against the free movement of persons. Recent contributions on border regions in affluent countries have highlighted an increased opposition to European integration that is fueled by political actors from the populist radical right. We hypothesize that border residents are more opposed to the free movement of persons than non-border residents the more they are exposed to the influx of cross-border workers. The empirical analysis draws on a representative post-vote survey from the so-called “VOTO studies” on a popular initiative by the radical right that demanded Switzerland’s termination of the free movement of persons with the European Union in 2020. In line with our hypothesis, we find a significant positive interaction effect between border residence and the share of cross-border commuters on the likelihood to vote in favor of this proposition. While border residence turns out to be insufficient to foster increased re-bordering attitudes, we show that the magnitude of incoming cross-border commuters makes a difference.
因为跨境通勤者:反对瑞士与欧盟边境地区的人员自由流动
迄今为止,有关民粹主义和边界问题的学术研究在很大程度上是各自为政的。本文旨在通过对在反对人员自由流动的民族民粹主义动员背景下个人对重新接壤政策的态度进行实证分析,将这两个方面结合起来。近期有关富裕国家边境地区的研究成果强调,在民粹主义激进右翼政治人物的推动下,反对欧洲一体化的呼声日益高涨。我们假设,边境居民比非边境居民更反对人员自由流动,因为他们越容易受到跨境工人涌入的影响。实证分析借鉴了所谓 "VOTO 研究 "的代表性投票后调查,该研究针对的是激进右翼提出的要求瑞士在 2020 年终止与欧盟之间人员自由流动的民众倡议。与我们的假设相符,我们发现边境居住地和跨境通勤者比例对投票支持该倡议的可能性具有显著的正向交互效应。虽然边境居住地不足以促使人们改变对重新接壤的态度,但我们发现,跨境通勤者的数量会产生影响。
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