Author: dadadomi

Looking forward to our first project workshop on the ‘Political Geography of Euroscepticism’, held virtually with a great group of international colleagues.

Program

Thursday 8. April

13:00 – 13:15	Introduction of participants & the Ambizione project
13:15– 14:15	Roundtable on the Geography of Public Opinion towards EU Governance: Dominik Schraff/Jana Lipps; Lisa Dellmuth
14:15 – 14:30	Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:30	Roundtable on the European Electoral Geography: Dominik Schraff/Ioannis Vergioglou; Arjan Schakel; Alexia Katsanidou/Quinton Mayne
15:30 – 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30	Alexia Katsanidou/Quinton Mayne: Salience of immigration and the effects of the refugee crisis
16:30 – 17:15	Dominik Schraff/Ronja Sczepanski: United or divided in diversity? The heterogeneous effects of ethnic diversity on nested identities

Friday 9. April

13:00 – 13:45	Francesco Nicoli/Ann-Kathrin Reinl: Regional Inequalities and Supranational Solidarity
13:45 – 14:30	Sven Hegewald: PhD Proposal – The Political Geography of Far-Right Support
14:30 – 14:45	Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:30	Pauliina Patana: Residential Constraints and the Political Geography of the Populist Radical Right
15:30 – 16:15	Kal Munis: Asymmetrical Resentment and America’s Urban-Rural Divide
16:15 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15	Diane Bolet/Fergus Green: Is the Green New Deal a Vote winner? Evidence from Spanish National Election Results
17:15 – 18:00	Dominik Schraff/Sven Hegewald: Regional Inequality and Place-Based Resentment in Europe – Affective Polarization across Space

How does inequality shape institutional trust in Europe? In our recent paper @EJPRjournal we find that changes in a state's regional inequality have similarly strong effects on trust as changes in the Gini coefficient of income inequality. https://t.co/Zqgm4lt4t9

— Dominik Schraff (@DominikSchraff) December 14, 2020

Referendum votes on EU agreements create a situation of asymmetric ratitifaction standards. In my recent paper @jepp_journal, I provide empirical evidence that this can undermine the legitimacy of EU governance. https://t.co/67MbY8cvz3

— Dominik Schraff (@DominikSchraff) December 11, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a rally around the flag effect in political support. This is a short threat on recent work with @svenhegewald on this dynamic. We use high quality Dutch panel data @centerdata that covers the time before and during the first Covid-19 wave.

— Dominik Schraff (@DominikSchraff) December 4, 2020

My recent paper on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on political trust has now been accepted at the European Journal of Political Research. I argue that anxiety in the face of rising Covid-19 has pushed standard cognitive evaluations of the political regime to the background, leading to a rally around the flag effect. Using Dutch survey data from March/April 2020, I show that rising trust is explained by increasing Covid-19 incidents. The specific lockdown measures, in contrast, have had no direct causal effect on political trust. These findings raise interesting questions for future research on the role of emotions for political trust formation in a crisis. The pre-print is available here.

My recent paper with Frank Schimmelfennig investigates the effects of opt-out votes in single EU member states on perceptions of EU regime legitimacy. We find that differentiated integration has the potential to accommodate heterogeneous preferences on EU integration, narrowing the gap in legitimacy perceptions between Eurosceptic and Europhile voters.

I am grateful that my recent article in the Swiss Political Science Review receives the 2020 Fritz Thyssen prize for the best article published in the social sciences of the German-speaking world. Some research publishes more easily, most is difficult to publish, and some gets not published at all. This piece was one of the more difficult ones. So I am even more pleased to see it winning a price. Thanks to SPSR for nominating my contribution!

I have written a short paper on the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on institutional trust. You can download the draft here: Political trust during Covid Preprint.

In a recent project, Frank Schimmelfennig and I have analyzed the effect of differentiated integration on citizens’ perceptions of democratic legitimacy in the EU. A summary is now available on the EUROPP blog.

My recent work with Frank Schimmelfennig on the citizen-level consequences of differentiated integration has been published in the working paper series at the European University Institute.