Borderline democracy? How Polish voters tolerated restrictions of civil liberties to address immigration crisis

In the face of a growing migration crisis in 2021, the Polish government declared a state of emergency along its border with Belarus, suspending basic civil liberties for citizens in the affected areas. A new study in The Journal of Politics investigates whether these restrictions sparked a political backlash at the ballot box—and finds surprisingly little evidence that they did.

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