"Demographic backsliding" as a euphemism for voting in non-left politicians is odd. Hungary just had their peaceful transition of power. Will anyone change their mind about how anti democratic Hungary was?
But high skilled immigration isn't really that morally salient for elites *or* the average voters in much of these countries, right? A big problem here is that the terms of the immigration debate seemed to always collapse the different categories of migrants into one. It doesn't seem like the educated, PMC-types in many of these countries even possess a legitimate vocabulary or language to make these distinctions in the first place, and so I doubt this kind of policy pivot is in the cards for many states. Absent huge turnover in electeds and ruling parties etc.
I agree—everyone supports but nobody truly cares about skilled immigration. Which is exactly the problem—I’ll be talking about this at the Progress Conference in a couple of weeks and probably post on it shortly after.
My p-doom on this question got a little higher after I checked how Denmark's system is doing, and their coalition seems... much more unstable than had been my initial impression over the past year, after hearing about how their center-left party apparently pivoted successfully.
"Demographic backsliding" as a euphemism for voting in non-left politicians is odd. Hungary just had their peaceful transition of power. Will anyone change their mind about how anti democratic Hungary was?
But high skilled immigration isn't really that morally salient for elites *or* the average voters in much of these countries, right? A big problem here is that the terms of the immigration debate seemed to always collapse the different categories of migrants into one. It doesn't seem like the educated, PMC-types in many of these countries even possess a legitimate vocabulary or language to make these distinctions in the first place, and so I doubt this kind of policy pivot is in the cards for many states. Absent huge turnover in electeds and ruling parties etc.
I agree—everyone supports but nobody truly cares about skilled immigration. Which is exactly the problem—I’ll be talking about this at the Progress Conference in a couple of weeks and probably post on it shortly after.
My p-doom on this question got a little higher after I checked how Denmark's system is doing, and their coalition seems... much more unstable than had been my initial impression over the past year, after hearing about how their center-left party apparently pivoted successfully.
Can't wait to chat at Progress Conference! :D