Replication Data for The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how (doi:10.7910/DVN/LBHRJD)

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Replication Data for The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how

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doi:10.7910/DVN/LBHRJD

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2019-03-22

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Urso, Ornella, 2019, "Replication Data for The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LBHRJD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:bNg2YykLr0yrac5R5FsUEw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/LBHRJD

Authoring Entity:

Urso, Ornella

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Urso, Ornella

Depositor:

Urso, Ornella

Date of Deposit:

2018-06-17

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LBHRJD

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, Italy, Immigration, Agenda-setting, Political Parties

Abstract:

Italy is one of the most representative ‘new immigration countries’. Between the 1980s and the 1990s, it became a major country of destination for immigrants coming from Asia, Middle East and North Africa. As a result, since the mid-nineties, immigration has gained salience within the Italian political debate. Building on the existing literature on agenda-setting and framing studies, this article studies the evolution of the immigration issue in Italy over the last two decades. It focuses on the framing and, more specifically, the position political actors tend to adopt when debating on immigration. In particular, the main research questions are: to what extent is the framing of immigration associated with the traditional left vs. right spectrum? Do incumbent political parties tend to adopt a different position toward immigration than opposition parties? This article analyses party competition dynamics over the immigration issue in Italy from 1995 to 2011. The author carried out a political-claim analysis of articles from two Italian national daily newspapers. Findings show that immigration is more a positional issue than a valence one. Political actors’ positions towards migration appear to be anchored to the old left vs. right dimension of the political conflict. This demonstrates that parties’ engagement within the political conflict goes beyond electoral campaigns. Finally, being in government seems to play a crucial role in “softening” the way party actors frame immigration, in terms of both the arguments used and the pro- or anti-immigration positions adopted.

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Citation

Title:

Urso, O. (2018). The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 48(3), 365-381. doi:10.1017/ipo.2018.16

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File: Replication Data for The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how.tab

Number of cases: 1399
No. of variables per record: 14
Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Dataset

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Weight - Weight based on number of arguments
Year - Year of the claim
InElectoralCampaign - During an electoral campaign
Incumbency - Incumbent claimant
MigrantGroup - Migrant groups targeted by the claim
PoliticalParty - Claimant's political party (on the left-right continuum)
Position - Inclusiveness/exclusiveness of the claim
Argument - Argument of the claim
InElectoralCampaignRevCod - During an electoral campaign (rev. cod. for multinomial)
IncumbencyRevCod - Incumbent claimant (rev. cod. for multinomial)
MigrantGroupRevCod - Migrant groups targeted by the claim (rev. cod. for multinomial)
PoliticalPartyRevCod - Claimants political party (on the left-right continuum) (rev. cod. for multinomial)
ArticleSource_Id - name of newspaper issue from which the article is coded, numeric
PREDPRO1 - Predicted probability

Variables

Weight based on number of arguments

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.5.	Claim with 2 arguments
1.	Claim with 1 argument

Summary Statistics: Valid 1399.0; Min. 0.5; Mean 0.9042172980700501; StDev 0.19683678405598087; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:T5XKTvLZFtQXfvx9WbM3Ig==

Year of the claim

f3177888 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 2011.0; Mean 2004.1536812008578; StDev 4.414499984794186; Valid 1399.0; Min. 1995.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ISvMTi3u/U9SOtKQRrumIQ==

During an electoral campaign

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.	Not in an Electoral Campaign
1.	In an Electoral Campaign

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.03288062902072894; Valid 1399.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.17838789105364933

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:9mqXSI9t5bcQZhIZsVTW6g==

Incumbent claimant

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.	Not incumbent
1.	Incumbent

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.487663289975287; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 1399.0; Mean 0.6111508220157257;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:YiHhgXGwRIyym4hfGXXQHg==

Migrant groups targeted by the claim

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
1.	Asylum seekers
4.	Roma and Sinti
0.	Others
5.	Muslims
2.	Illegal immigrants
3.	Labour migrants

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 1399.0; StDev 1.6714698438770172; Mean 1.4989278055754127; Max. 5.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:gKHf61EzsueSxAzvcIL4EQ==

Claimant's political party (on the left-right continuum)

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
4.	Right
2.	Centre-left
3.	Centre-right
1.	Left

Summary Statistics: Max. 4.0; Valid 1399.0; Mean 2.959256611865624; StDev 0.9511222295896988; Min. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ildczR+F28Dj5em4ZPOLWA==

Inclusiveness/exclusiveness of the claim

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
1.	Inclusive
0.	Exclusive
2.	Neutral/Unclassifiable

Summary Statistics: Valid 1399.0; StDev 0.7835272206481141; Mean 0.8541815582558933; Max. 2.0; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:MtwHVC9jHXZxa/0qujzorw==

Argument of the claim

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
1.	Security and National Identity
2.	Moral Principles and Human Rights
3.	Not specified
0.	Other Instrumental

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.2185314995607743; Mean 1.8506075768405992; Valid 1399.0; Max. 3.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:MtosaMM75JXZJPEA9G8C4A==

During an electoral campaign (rev. cod. for multinomial)

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.	In an Electoral Campaign
1.	Not in an Electoral Campaign

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.17838789105364933; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.967119370979271; Valid 1399.0; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:6jKZfWSuWQgLd9GSmEBlaQ==

Incumbent claimant (rev. cod. for multinomial)

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.	Incumbent
1.	Not incumbent

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 1399.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.487663289975287; Mean 0.3888491779842744

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:YndF5xuDbc6eNmo/ihzc/g==

Migrant groups targeted by the claim (rev. cod. for multinomial)

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
5.	Others
1.	Roma and Sinti
2.	Labour migrants
4.	Asylum seekers
0.	Muslims
3.	Illegal immigrants

Summary Statistics: Mean 3.5010721944245873; Min. 0.0; Max. 5.0; Valid 1399.0; StDev 1.6714698438770172

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:u+cqSm2hEQZtZbaVTpKRkg==

Claimants political party (on the left-right continuum) (rev. cod. for multinomial)

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
2.	Centre-right
3.	Left
1.	Right
4.	Centre-left

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.193217005838382; Max. 4.0; Mean 2.2308791994281663; Min. 1.0; Valid 1399.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QWPqQDXNaMNmArMo0fEw8g==

name of newspaper issue from which the article is coded, numeric

f3177888 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
101.	Il Giornale
100.	La Repubblica

Summary Statistics: Valid 1399.0; Min. 100.0; Max. 101.0; StDev 0.4992977486896705; Mean 100.52966404574696

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:2viUSHftY/iq9V0VvnrqoA==

Predicted probability

f3177888 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.48854624537922287; Max. 0.9724642129755668; Valid 1399.0; Min. 0.04810909783756422; StDev 0.2920912887985067

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ORlk0zSJyK7f4wg+T0GkgA==

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