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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Publications 1 - 10 of 16
  • From selective integration into selective implementation
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zhelyazkova, Asya (2014)
    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
  • Good governance and differentiated integration: Graded membership in the European Union
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schimmelfennig, Frank (2016)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Striking a pose
    Item type: Journal Article
    Cross, James P. (2013)
    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.
  • From capacity to sovereignty: Legislative politics and differentiated integration in the European Union
    Item type: Journal Article
    Winzen, Thomas (2016)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Does Social Capital Increase Public Support for Economic Globalization?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Spilker, Gabriele; Schaffer, Lena; Bernauer, Thomas (2012)
    European Journal of Political Research
  • Technological revolution meets policy and the market
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bernauer, Thomas; Meins, Erika (2003)
    European Journal of Political Research
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