Domestic Contestation of the European Union presents a collection of articles, written by leading scholars of EU politics in Europe and the United States, that centres on interplay between voters, parties, and policy-makers in reshaping the debate on Europe. Analysing novel Europe-wide datasets of voters and parties and using state-of-the art observational and experimental methods, the articles in this workshop will shed new light on the increasingly multilevel nature of democratic politics in Europe.
Thursday, December 6th
13.00
Lunch 32L.B.07, LSE
14.00
Welcome and Announcements
14.05
Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk
"Disaffection and Dealignment: The Individual-level Effects of Public-Party Incongruence"
Discussant: Andreas Goldberg
15.00
Julian Hoerner, Sara Hobolt
"Unity in Diversity? Polarization, Issue Diversity and Satisfaction with Democracy"
Discussant: Heike Klüver
16.00
Coffee break
16.30
Jae-Jae Spoon, Heike Klüver
"Party Accommodation and Vote Switching: Explaining Support for Anti-Immigration Parties in Europe"
Discussant:Toni Rodon
17.30
Tarik Abou-Chadi, Markus Wagner
"Electoral Fortunes of Social Democratic Parties: Do Positions on Immigration and the EU matter?"
Discussant: Julian Hoerner
19.00
Dinner for Presenters and Discussants
Bill's restaurant
Friday, December 7th
9.30
Coffee 32L.B.07, LSE
10.00
Theresa Kuhn, Francesco Nicoli, Frank Vandenbroucke
"Is international solidarity a question of economic or cultural left-right ideology? A conjoint experiment on public support for European unemployment insurance in 13 EU member states"
Discussant: Sergi Pardos
11.00
Sara Hobolt, Toni Rodon
"Cross-cutting issues and electoral choice. EU issue-voting in the aftermath of Brexit"
Discussant: Ryan Bakker
12.00
Lunch break
13.00
Sergi Pardos-Prado, Carla Xena
"From Benefits to Costs: Tax Progressivity, Immigration, and Preferences for Spending"
Discussant: Francesco Nicoli
14.00
Andreas Goldberg, Erika van Elsas and Claes de Vreese
"Mismatch? The differential discrepancy between elites' EU attitudes across four countries"
Discussant: Tarik Abou-Chadi
London School of Economics and Political Science, 32L.B.07, LSE (see this map or get directions).