Publications and Datasets

Research at EGPP fosters the publication of research in a variety of outlets:

  • Monographs and edited volumes;
  • Articles in refereed academic journals;
  • In-house publications such as the EGPP Working Papers Series, the EGPP Policy Briefs and the special editions EGPP Policy Papers. Inquiries about paper submissions to these series should be addressed to Daniele.Caramani@eui.eu. Acceptance in the series is conditional on an open internal review process.

In addition, EGPP constitutes a platform for datasets to support research on European politics.

Elite-mass linkages in the preference formation on differentiated integration

Stefan Telle, Lisanne de Blok, Catherine E. De Vries and Lorenzo Cicchi, 2022

How does the public form preferences about differentiated integration (DI)? The literature on mass-elite linkages offers two perspectives: top-down, political elites cue the public, or bottom-up, political elites react to public preferences. This paper develops expectations based on both perspectives. Read more…

The political economy of COVID-19 responses in East Central Europe

Edited by BOHLE, Dorothee Bohle, Edgars Eihmanis and Alen Toplišek, 2022

This volume asks two questions: first, how have states in the region attempted to mitigate the socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 crisis, and second, whether they have attempted to build up resilience to external shocks. Based on a number of case studies, the volume provides a comparative picture of the responses to the COVID-19 crisis in East Central Europe. Read more…

Solidarity and trust in times of Covid-19

Philipp Genschel, Anton Hemerijck, Mohamed Nasr, Luís Russo, 2021

How did one year of COVID-19 affect trust and solidarity in the EU? This report draws on new evidence collected by a survey fielded in April 2021 across 13 EU countries and the UK to assess it. While trust in other people and institutions did not collapse, it is still soberingly low and declining. People are generally less solidaristic in 2021 than in 2020.
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EU Profiler/Euandi Trend File (2009-2019)

Andres Reiljan, Frederico Ferreira Da Silva, Lorenzo Cicchi, Diego Garzia, Alexander H. Trechsel, 2020

The EU Profiler/euandi Trend File (2009-2019) is a dataset combining party position data from three pan-European voting advice applications (VAAs), developed for the European Parliament elections in 2009, 2014 and 2019. It includes the positions of over 400 parties from the 28 EU member states on a wide range of salient political issues. Read more…

Catalogue

Browse the catalogue of all publications and datasets below.

Comparative politics

  • Type: Book
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): CARAMANI, Daniele
  • Citation: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023
  • Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, [European Governance and Politics Programme]
  • Abstract: With unparalleled empirical material, this is the most comprehensive introduction to comparative politics written by the leading experts in the field who bring together a diverse and informed international perspective [...]
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Party placement in the void : the European political space in 10 years of cross-national voting advice applications

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): REILJAN, Andres, CICCHI, Lorenzo, GARZIA, Diego, FERREIRA DA SILVA, Frederico, TRECHSEL, Alexander H.
  • Series/Report no.: EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/20, European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: With this paper, we pay tribute to Peter Mair by looking back at the three waves (2009, 2014, 2019) of the pan-European Voting Advice Application (VAA) EU Profiler/euandi – a [...]
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Who lends the EU the ‘right to govern’?: symbolic legitimacy vs. pragmatic policy framing in party communication during the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): THOMAS, Anja
  • Series/Report no.: EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/35, The European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: The Covid-19 crisis as an extreme case of politics was a formidable real-world test for the legitimacy of the EU as decision-making arena. The debate about party political politicisation in [...]
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Learning from adversity: towards a European Union of social investment welfare states

  • Type: Other
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): HEMERIJCK, Anton
  • Series/Report no.: EUI, RSC, Policy Brief, 2023/08, European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: This policy brief reconstructs the process of welfare recalibration across EU welfare states in response to the Great Recession and the COVID-19 health shocks. It brings out four important lessons. [...]
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Shared identity in crisis: a comparative study of support for the EU in the face of the Russian threat

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): SCHULTE-CLOOS, Julia, DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka
  • Series/Report no.: EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/48, The European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: Social identity theory suggests that an external threat, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, can increase identification with a group and foster a shared sense of identity. [...]
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Integrating Diversity in the European Union (InDivEU) : differentiated integration manual

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): CHIOCCHETTI, Paolo
  • Series/Report no.: European Governance and Politics Programme, 2022/01
  • Abstract: The present manual offers to policymakers and practitioners a comprehensive and ready-to-use toolkit for the design, choice, and assessment of differentiated integration scheme. On the one hand, it distils the [...]
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The political economy of COVID-19 responses in East Central Europe

  • Type: Book
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): BOHLE, Dorothee, EIHMANIS, Edgars, TOPLIÅ EK, Alen
  • Citation: San Domenico di Fiesole : European University Institute, 2022
  • Series/Report no.: RSC, European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: The COVID-19 crisis is the second major crisis to have hit the East Central European countries within a decade, putting these countries’ socioeconomic fabric once again to a deep test, [...]
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The social roots of the transnational cleavage : education, occupation, and sex

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): HOOGHE, Liesbet, MARKS, Gary
  • Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, 2022/53, European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: We develop a micro approach to assess how social structure is expressed in voting for Green and TAN parties. Using a cleavage perspective we explain the rise of green and [...]
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Differentiated integration in the European Union : its role for cooperating with nonmembers and for the EU’s future as perceived by academic experts

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): KRÖGER, Sandra, DEDE, Maria
  • Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, 2022/63, European Governance and Politics Programme
  • Abstract: There is now an abundant conceptual and empirical literature on differentiated integration in the EU. However, what are academic experts’ more political and normative views on the matter? This paper [...]
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Integrating Diversity in the European Union (InDivEU) : report on scenarios for differentiation and other forms of flexibility

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): CHIOCCHETTI, Paolo
  • Series/Report no.: European Governance and Politics Programme, 2022/02
  • Abstract: This report develops two sets of scenarios on the future use of differentiation and flexibility in the European Union. The exercise is based on an in-depth analysis of the relevant [...]
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