Deservingness and European Solidarity During COVID-19
Deservingness and European Solidarity During COVID-19
English: Together with Sebastian Koos we analyse support of European financial and medical aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey experiments, conducted in Germany in April and November 2020, allow us to test a number of mechanisms that add to the still dominating 'redistribution from' dimension of research on EU solidarity. Moreover, we extend the understanding of deservingness as recipients' control over their situation (dominant in the economics literature), by applying a multidimensional concept, which also accounts for need, identity, attitudes and reciprocity. Our analyses use data from the COVID-19 and Inequality survey programme, administered and financed by the Cluster of Excellence on the Politics of Inequality.
EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy (EU3D)
EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy (EU3D)
EU3D’s overall objective is to develop a critical theory of political differentiation that specifies the conditions under which differentiation is politically acceptable, institutionally sustainable and democratically legitimate, and the conditions under which it is not, i.e. when conditions of dominance prevail. In the subproject directed by Dirk Leuffen, we design and conduct survey experiments to analyze how citizens across Europe conceive of EU differentiated governance, how they experience domination and evaluate possible EU reforms. As of February 2019 the project is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program.
Perceptions of Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution Across EU Member States (together with Peter Selb and Thomas Hinz & Julian Schüssler)
Perceptions of Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution Across EU Member States
(together with Peter Selb and Thomas Hinz & Julian Schüssler)
How do citizens perceive economic inequalities within and between EU member states? How do they form preferences towards cross-national redistribution? And how does factual information about horizontal inequalities affect citizens' support for redistributive policies? In contrast to extant observational studies, the project relies on a multifactorial survey experiment to determine the sources of redistributive preferences. Unlike previous experimental work, the proposed project looks at the power of factual information to alter perceptions and preferences, and therefore has the potential to produce results of immediate policy relevance.This project is kindly funded by the Cluster of Excellence on the Politics of Inequality.