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
New working paper: Who rallies around the flag during the pandemic?
Paper on Covid-19 and political trust accepted at EJPR
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.
Quasi-experimental paper on public opinion effects of differentiated integration out now at EUP
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.
Fritz Thyssen Prize for best article in the social sciences
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!
COVID-19 and Political Trust
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.
New EUROPP post on differentiated integration and democratic legitimacy in the EU
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.
EUI Working Paper
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.
Paper on inequality and EU regime support accepted at JCMS
My recent paper on income inequality and European regime evaluations has been accepted at the Journal of Common Market Studies. I argue that income inequality is an influential antecedent cause of regime evaluations in Europe’s multi-level governance system. While rising inequality depresses citizens’ evaluations of national regimes, European regime support benefits. You can also find a preprint on my researchgate site. Replication material is coming soon.