The effects of austerity in response to financial crises are widely contested and assumed to
cause significant electoral backlash. Nonetheless, governments routinely adopt austerity …

Governments have great difficulties designing politically sustainable responses to rising
public debt. These difficulties are grounded in a limited understanding of the popular …

Having a European identity is expected to influence citizens' attitudes and behaviour
towards the EU community. European identity is indeed positively related to support for EU …

As a consequence of the Eurozone crisis and the creation of the European Stability
Mechanism (ESM), the prospect of a transfer union has become a particularly contested …

What are the sources of public support for international aid in times of crises? This paper
investigates the determinants of public support for the EU Covid-19 aid package …

The COVID-19 pandemic worsened Italy's fiscal outlook by increasing public debt. If interest
rates were to rise, it would become more likely that Italy experiences a financial crisis and …

This article examines public opinion toward sovereign debt disputes. Using evidence from
multiple surveys fielded in Argentina—the country at the center of the most prominent legal …

As the European Union enters into the next decade, its leaders seemingly strive towards
more future integration rather than less, despite the recent setback of Brexit and the rise of …

This paper analyses the willingness of individual citizens to show solidarity in the context of
the Eurozone crisis. Taking a cost-sensitive approach to solidarity, we assessed the extent to …

A voluminous literature still debates the causes and consequences of electoral systems but
tends to agree that once formed, electoral systems seldom change (Renwick, 2010) …