Special Issue: Political Parties and Migration Policy Puzzles: The European Scene

Contents of this Special Issue of the Comparative European Politics are:

+ Political parties and migration policy puzzles: The European scene
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Jonas Hinnfors and Andrea Spehar

+ How to please voters without alienating friends? Parties, organised interests and advocacy coalitions in Swiss immigration policy
Alexandre Afonso

+ No nordic model: Understanding differences in the labour migration policy preferences of mainstream Finnish and Swedish political parties
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Jonas Hinnfors, Andrea Spehar and Pia Levin

+ Why mainstream parties change policy on migration: A UK case study – The Conservative Party, immigration and asylum, 1960–2010
Tim Bale and Rebecca Partos

+ The migration myth in the absence of immigrants: How does the conservative right in Hungary and Turkey grapple with immigration?
Umut Korkut

+ The other ‘other’: Party responses to immigration in eastern Europe
Jan Rovny

+ If the issue fits, stay put: Cleavage stability, issue compatibility and drastic changes on the immigration ‘issue’
Pontus Odmalm and Betsy Super

+ Policy populism? Political populism and migrant integration policies in Rotterdam and Amsterdam
Mark van Ostaijen and Peter Scholten