Attitudes towards euro area reforms: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Unemployment risk-sharing in the EU: How policy design influences citizen support for European unemployment policy

“…Ferrera and Pellegata, 2017; Gerhards et al, 2020), rather than with more negative empirical appraisals of such potential (e.g. Dolls and Wehrhöfer, 2021; Lahusen and Grasso, 2018). The contrast with our findings is, we suspect, partly bourn of our domain-focus compared to the more negative appraisals.…”

“…Indeed, other research shows the place and domain specificity of attitudes to solidarity (Beramendi, 2007). And rather than asking about one-sided transfers from better-performing countries to countries facing structural difficulty (Dolls and Wehrhöfer, 2021; Vasilopoulou and Talving, 2019), we ask about a policy potentially beneficial to any unemployed citizen in any participating country.…”

“…Scholarship on public opinion about EU social policies has yielded diverging findings. Some uncover considerable support for EU cross-border solidarity (Ferrera and Pellegata, 2017; Gerhards et al, 2020), while others find modest support, especially as compared to support for national policies (Dolls and Wehrhöfer, 2021; Lahusen and Grasso, 2018). Bremer et al (2020) suggest that public opinion depends on the policy domain and instrument: support is strongest for cross-national solidarity towards natural disasters and lowest towards struggles with debt, and precautionary ex ante instruments (like training or education) are preferred over ex post remedies (like income transfers).…”

Political Science Research on the Reasons for the (non) Adoption and (non) Implementation of EMU Reform Proposals: The State of the Art

“…The findings, so far, are still somewhat contradictory. They usually show that ideology/party identification, trust in the EU and European identity/cosmopolitanism and the severity of the Great Recession are most important predictors of support on an individual level and that Germans are significantly less likely to support fiscal solidarity (Franchino and Segatti 2019, Dolls and Wehrhofer 2018, Blesse et al 2020, Nicoli 2019a, Kanthak and Spies 2018, Blesse et al 2019. Meanwhile, Vasilopoulou and Talving show that poorer countries are significantly less likely to support fiscal solidarity than rich ones (Vasilopoulou and Talving 2020).…”

Between Fear Mongers and Samaritans: Does Information Provision Affect Attitudes Towards the Right of Asylum in Germany?

“…Information experiments embedded in face-to-face or online surveys are becoming increasingly popular in economics and political science. They are used to study the information-sensitivity of individual attitudes towards redistribution (Alesina et al, 2018;Kuziemko et al, 2015;Cruces et al, 2013), policy reforms (Dolls and Wehrhöfer, 2018;Lergetporer et al, 2018), as well as immigration (Hopkins et al, 2019;Getmansky et al, 2018;Lergetporer et al, 2017;Bansak et al, 2016;Grigorieff et al, 2016). 1 Immigration literature has mainly focused on the importance of the number of immigrants and high-skilled versus low-skilled immigration.…”