𝐃𝐨 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬?

Using a survey experiment in 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇮🇹, Björn Bremer and I study attitudes towards taxation in a new JEPP article.

#OpenAccess Paper: doi.org/10.1080/135017…

🧵about the findings below:

PBC will be back next Tuesday! Until then, here's the schedule for the remainder of the academic year.

Graph of the month:

Analyzing 167 arguments made in 25 direct democratic voting campaigns on international issues in Switzerland, Giorgio Malet and Stefanie Walter show that the framing of arguments in favor and against international cooperation differ significantly.

European elections are looming, and everyone is talking about a green backlash. So, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Markus Kollberg, Jannik Jansen, and I collected lots of new data to see if voters are really turning away from climate policy. Here is a what we learned:
delorscentre.eu/en/publication…

Excited to kick off my journey at ETH Zurich, diving into my Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione project on 'Policy Feedback in the European Union'. It's bittersweet bidding farewell to the incredible folks at IPZ - Political Science UZH after four wonderful years. Luckily, they're just a quick 20-minute hop away.

I am looking for a postdoc and two PhD researchers as part of my starting grant project 'Public reinsurance in multilevel polities (EUROPE RE)'.

The job ads can be found here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…, jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Deadline is 15 April. Please share widely! 😊

Now out in Journal of Politics @[email protected]. In our new article, Denis Cohen | @[email protected] Werner Krause and I provide a new framework, method and data set to analyze vote switching between political parties. We also show how mainstream party convergence affects patterns of vote switching.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

5ème et dernier 'Apéro Thématique' JA Mag /JA sur l'angle :
« Comment les tendances de vote des agriculteurs évoluent ? »
Avec Dr Diane Bolet , Politologue à l’Université de Zurich et Jeremy Jallat 🤸🐮🇫🇷🏔🎿☘️🌲 Membre du CA Jeunes Agriculteurs

Happy to see this paper online Journal of Politics @[email protected].

When they couldn't vote in private, Spanish citizens voted less for PP because there is a stigma against the party (i.e., there is a social norm against supporting it).

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Excited to welcome Diane Bolet at the LSE Government Political Behaviour seminar today! She will present “Does Financial Assistance Mitigate Rural Backlash? The Case of the Common Agricultural Policy in France” (with Giorgio Malet) today *4-5 pm UK time* @LSENews.

New paper J of Peace Research with Tabea Palmtag (@IPZ_ch) and Tobias Rommel (@HfPMuenchen/ TU München)!🥳

bit.ly/47V7zhl

🆕 How does public opinion affect party discourse on wedge issues?

Giorgio Malet & Cyrille Thiébaut analyse how mainstream parties have changed their discourse 🗣️ on #EuropeanIntegration in response to an increasingly #Eurosceptic public 🇪🇺

👉 bit.ly/3vOmBs1 #OA

🥁 Exciting Update! 📣 Our 5-wave panel survey on🇨🇭Swiss public opinion is now out, revealing key shifts in attitudes. Dive into our data to explore how attitudes on Switzerland’s relations with 🇪🇺Europe and the 🌍World have evolved. Access it here:
doi.org/10.48573/enmd-…

🚨 New ERC Project DISINTEGRATION publication in EJPR journal!

Giorgio Malet and Cyrille Thiébaut analyse how public Euroscepticism has constrained the discourse of mainstream parties on EU issues. Check it out!