Journal: European Journal of Political Research

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Eur. j. polit. res.

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Wiley

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0304-4130
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  • Technological revolution meets policy and the market
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bernauer, Thomas; Meins, Erika (2003)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Europe's migration crisis: Local contact and out-group hostility
    Item type: Journal Article
    Rudolph, Lukas; Wagner, Markus (2022)
    European Journal of Political Research
    Does a large influx of asylum seekers in the local community lead to a backlash in public opinion towards foreign populations? We assess the effects of asylum seeker presence using original survey and macro-level municipality data from Austria, exploiting exogenous elements of the placement of asylum seekers on the municipality level. Methodologically, we draw on entropy balancing for causal identification. Our findings are threefold. First, respondents in municipalities receiving asylum seekers report substantially higher exposure on average, but largely without the stronger contact that would allow for meaningful interaction. Second, hostility towards asylum seekers on average increased in areas that housed them. Third, this backlash spilt over: general attitudes towards Muslims and immigrants are less favourable in contexts with local asylum seeker presence, while vote intention for the main anti-immigration party is higher. Our findings go beyond existing work by examining contact directly as a mechanism, by showing a backlash effect in the medium term, and by focusing on a broad set of attitudinal and behavioural measures. Our results point to a need to design policy interventions that minimise citizen backlash against rapid migration inflows.
  • Varieties of pro-Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union
    Item type: Journal Article
    Freudlsperger, Christian; Weinrich, Martin (2025)
    European Journal of Political Research
    Having long shied away from proactively politicizing issues of European integration, the past crisis decade has put generally pro-European mainstream parties under pressure to spell out more clearly which kind of Europe they support. We distinguish two such fundamental ideas of Europe: the redistributive polity, organizing transnational solidarity and the regulatory polity, strengthening national self-reliance. Both notions are integrationist, but they come with distinct policy implications. What determines mainstream party support for either of these polity ideas? We investigate this question on data provided by the ‘EUandI’ voting advice application, which contains party positions on core issues of integration for all EU member states for the four European Parliament elections between 2009 and 2024. Mainstream party support for redistribution, we find, is generally driven by their ideological placement on the economic and cultural dimension. While progressive and left parties tend towards EU-level redistribution, conservative and right parties are wedded to the idea of a regulatory European polity. This general dynamic, however, interacts with parties’ domestic considerations, that is, the public salience of an issue and a country's net-payer status in the EU. We further find that the effect of mainstream parties’ ideological positioning differs across policy domains. While cultural and economic positions drive support for redistribution in fiscal and taxation policy to a nearly equal extent, support for redistribution in migration policy is driven by cultural factors alone, while in matters of security and defence right mainstream parties are more supportive of European solidarity than parties of the mainstream left. Our analysis demonstrates that mainstream parties now compete visibly over EU-level redistribution, but that their stances on transnational solidarity differ depending on the domestic situation and the policy domain in question.
  • From selective integration into selective implementation
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zhelyazkova, Asya (2014)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Attitudes towards highly skilled and low-skilled immigration in Europe: A survey experiment in 15 European countries
    Item type: Journal Article
    Naumann, Elias; Stoetzer, Lukas F.; Pietrantuono, Giuseppe (2018)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • The Contingent Diffusion of Parliamentary Oversight Institutions in the European Union
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bormann, Nils C.; Winzen, Thomas (2016)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Conservatism between theory and practice: The case of migration to Europe
    Item type: Journal Article
    Beckstein, Martin; Rampton, Vanessa (2018)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Decoupling practical and legal compliance: Analysis of member states' implementation of EU policy
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zhelyazkova, Asya; Kaya, Cansarp; Schrama, Reini (2016)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Regional inequality and institutional trust in Europe
    Item type: Journal Article
    Lipps, Jana; Schraff, Dominik (2021)
    European Journal of Political Research
    Inequality is a central explanation of political distrust in democracies, but has so far rarely been considered a cause of (dis-)trust towards supranational governance. Moreover, while political scientists have extensively engaged with income inequality, other salient forms of inequality, such as the regional wealth distribution, have been sidelined. These issues point to a more general shortcoming in the literature. Determinants of trust in national and European institutions are often theorized independently, even though empirical studies have demonstrated large interdependence in citizens’ evaluations of national and supranational governance levels. In this paper, we argue that inequality has two salient dimensions: (1) income inequality and (2) regional inequality. Both dimensions are important antecedent causes of European Union (EU) trust, the effects of which are mediated by evaluations of national institutions. On the micro-level, we suggest that inequality decreases a person's trust in national institutions and thereby diminishes the positive effect of national trust on EU trust. On the macro-level, inequality decreases country averages of trust in national institutions. This, however, informs an individual's trust in the EU positively, compensating for the seemingly untrustworthiness of national institutions. Finally, we propose that residing in an economically declining region can depress institutional trust. We find empirical support for our arguments by analysing regional temporal change over four waves of the European Social Survey 2010–2016 with a sample of 209 regions nested in 24 EU member states. We show that changes in a member state's regional inequality have similarly strong effects on trust as changes in the Gini coefficient of income inequality. Applying causal mediation techniques, we can show that the effects of inequality on EU trust are largely mediated through citizens’ evaluations of national institutions. In contrast, residing in an economically declining region directly depresses EU trust, with economically lagging areas turning their back on European governance and resorting to the national level instead. Our findings highlight the relevance of regional inequality for refining our understanding of citizens’ support for Europe's multi-level governance system and the advantages of causal modelling for the analysis of political preferences in a multi-level governance system. (© 2020 European Consortium for Political Research).
  • Political trust during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Rally around the flag or lockdown effects?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schraff, Dominik (2021)
    European Journal of Political Research
    How can we explain the rise in diffuse political support during the Covid‐19 pandemic? Recent research has argued that the lockdown measures generated political support. In contrast, I argue that the intensity of the pandemic rallied people around political institutions. Collective angst in the face of exponentially rising Covid‐19 cases depresses the usual cognitive evaluations of institutions and leads citizens to rally around existing intuitions as a lifebuoy. Using a representative Dutch household survey conducted over March 2020, I compare the lockdown effect to the dynamic of the pandemic. I find that the lockdown effect is driven by pre‐existing time trends. Accounting for non‐linearities in time makes the lockdown effect disappear. In contrast, more flexible modelling techniques reveal a robust effect of Covid‐19 infections on political trust. In line with an anxiety effect, I find that standard determinants of political trust – such as economic evaluations and social trust – lose explanatory power as the pandemic spreads. This speaks to an emotionally driven rally effect that pushes cognitive evaluations to the background. © 2020 European Consortium for Political Research.
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