Thought-provoking - moral language makes pro-immigration messages more effective.
Some of these are really small tweaks: a "fairer and more decent" rather than "better and sounder" immigration policy.
(And some are larger, like focusing on a country's values rather than economic benefits).
Dr. David Jeffery-Schwikkard
Thanks for this @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social 👌🏼 I might add my recent @psrm.bsky.social showing that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Central corrective to popular notion SD was destined to go anti-im 👇🏼
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Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties
Ok, I'll bite - mainly because the idea that accommodating the radical right on immigration is almost bound to work electorally seems to be rather popular among mainstream politicians.
Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are
