?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F34097%2F&rft.title=Taxation+with+Representation%3A+The+Political+Economy+of+Foreigners%E2%80%99+Voting+Rights&rft.creator=Gonnot%2C+J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me&rft.subject=B-+ECONOMIE+ET+FINANCE&rft.description=This+paper+examines+natives%E2%80%99+decision+to+grant+political+rights+to+foreign+residents+based+on+their+contribution+to+a+redistribution+mechanism+that+finances+a+private+and+a+public+good.+We+propose+a+model+where+agents%E2%80%99+redistributive+preferences+are+determined+by+their+skill+level+and+their+cultural+beliefs+about+public+spending%2C+which+vary+by+skill+and+nationality.+Contrary+to+a+commonly+held+view+in+the+political+economy+literature%2C+we+show+that+low-skill+natives+are+willing+to+enfranchise+relatively+skilled+foreigners+as+long+as+these+foreigners+have+sufficiently+liberal+beliefs+towards+public+spending.+Moreover%2C+we+establish+that+the+political+rights+that+low-skill+natives+are+prepared+to+grant+to+foreign+residents+is+a+nonmonotonic+function+of+immigration%E2%80%99s+skill+level+and+cultural+support+for+public+expenditure.%0D%0AIn+particular%2C+low-skill+natives+favor+greater+political+integration+for+less-skilled+or+more+liberal+foreigners+if+and+only+if+these+foreigners%E2%80%99+average+relative+preferences+for+the+private+and+the+public+good+are+sufficiently+close+to+their+own.+We+provide+empirical+support+for+some+of+the+theoretical+predictions+of+the+model+using+an+original+municipality-level+dataset+of+Swiss%0D%0Areferenda+about+non-citizen+voting+rights.+Our+results+indicate+that+municipalities+where+a+higher+share+of+natives+received+social+transfers+were+more+likely+to+support+immigrant+voting+and+that+this+effect+was+greater+where+foreigners+were+poorer+and+emigrated+from+less+economically+conservative+countries.&rft.publisher=TSE+Working+Paper&rft.date=2020-02&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F34097%2F1%2Fwp_tse_1077.pdf&rft.identifier=++Gonnot%2C+J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.idref.fr%2F255146051%3E++(2020)+Taxation+with+Representation%3A+The+Political+Economy+of+Foreigners%E2%80%99+Voting+Rights.++TSE+Working+Paper%2C+n.+20-1077%2C+Toulouse+++++&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tse-fr.eu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FTSE%2Fdocuments%2Fdoc%2Fwp%2F2020%2Fwp_tse_1077.pdf&rft.language=en