Linking citizens’ anti-immigration attitudes to their digital user engagement and voting behavior

Abstract Societally salient issues, like migration, stimulate user engagement with political parties on social media. This engagement, in turn, is associated behavior, such as voting. Nonetheless, few studies so far have investigated the interaction between these factors. We examine how anti-immigration attitudes are In this study, understood following Through online data that were collected October 2019 among adults (N= 1,000) Belgium, we investigate and voting behavior. Results suggest towards migration both left right-wing Moreover, – two related to behavior: being against (being favor of) (left-wing) media a higher likelihood of for party.