Emigrant inclusion in home country elections: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

EI Wellman - American Political Science Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
Since 1990, nearly 100 countries extended voting rights to citizens living abroad, including
32 in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the actual ability for emigrants to vote in subsequent …

The extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions dataset (1950–2020)

EI Wellman, NW Allen… - Comparative Political …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first
global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although …

A multilevel puzzle: Migrants' voting rights in national and local elections

JT Arrighi, R Bauböck - European Journal of Political Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How does international migration impact the composition of the demos? Constitutional
doctrines and democratic theories suggest contrasting responses: an insular one excludes …

Politics of emigration in Europe

A Weinar - The Routledge handbook of the politics of migration in …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter, I present the main debates on emigration in contemporary Europe. I argue
that emigration and diaspora studies addressing emigration of Europeans are rather limited …

The international diffusion of expatriate dual citizenship

M Vink, AH Schakel, D Reichel, NC Luk… - Migration …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
While the global increase of expatriate dual citizenship acceptance over the past decades
has been widely observed, the temporal and spatial contexts of this trend have remained …

Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies

S Umpierrez de Reguero, V Finn… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We identify four main strands of the migrant enfranchisement literature since 2010 and
outline its main (debated) concepts. We pinpoint missing links among the strands, such as a …

Reject, Reject, Reject... Passed! Explaining a Latecomer of Emigrant Enfranchisement

V Finn, JP Ramaciotti - Politics and Governance, 2024 - cogitatiopress.com
Despite the extensive spread of external voting across the world, exceptions remain as
some countries have not passed such regulations (eg, Uruguay) or have passed them but …

Enfranchising migrants in Chile: A century of politics, elites, and regime changes

V Finn - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Enfranchising migrants into the demos is a growing global trend, not exclusive to
democracy. Analysing a country that has expanded migrant suffrage in both democracy and …

Voting here and there: Political integration and transnational political engagement among immigrants in Europe

AR Chaudhary - Global Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, I examine voting patterns in origin and receiving country national elections
among immigrants in Europe. The existing scholarship on transnational political …

Political regimes and external voting rights: A cross-national comparison

SA Umpierrez de Reguero… - Frontiers in political …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we analyze the nexus between political regimes and external voting rights.
Using a global longitudinal dataset, we report that higher levels of inclusion and contestation …