Ruiz-Rufino, Ruben, Alonso, Sonia, (2016), “Democracy without choice: Citizens’ perceptions of government autonomy during the Eurozone crisis”, European Journal of Political Research, 56(2), 320-345, 30 December In this article it is argued that citizens take into account the degree of a government’s political autonomy to implement particular policies when expressing their views on satisfaction with democracy (SWD) but, in order to do so, they need to perceive it. When citizens directly …Read More

Goedemé, Tim, Collado, Diego, (2016), “The EU Convergence Machine at Work. To the Benefit of the EU’s Poorest Citizens?”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 6 Αpril Social cohesion in the EU (European Union) is usually assessed on the basis of GDP per capita and relative poverty rates. These indicators show that the ‘European convergence machine’ led to greater social cohesion between old and new Member States (EU-15 and NMS) until the onset of …Read More

Hobolt, Sara B., Tilley, James, (2016), “Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the euro crisis”, West European Politics, 16 June This article argues that both sanctioning and selection mechanisms can help to explain this flight from the centre to challenger parties. First, voters who were economically adversely affected by the crisis punish mainstream parties both in government and in opposition by voting for challenger …Read More

Sani, Giulia M. Dotti, Magistro, Beatrice, (2016), “Increasingly unequal? The economic crisis, social inequalities and trust in the European Parliament in 20 European countries”, European Journal of Political Research, 13 January The 2008/2009 economic crisis has been identified as an important element contributing to declining trust in institutions in Europe and worldwide. However, it is unclear whether this decline in trust is distributed homogenously among citizens or whether there are …Read More

Guio, Anne-Catherine, Marlier, Eric, Gordon, David, Fahmy, Eldin, Nandy, Shailen, Pomati, Marco, (2016), “Improving the measurement of material deprivation at the European Union level”, Journal of European Social Policy, June In June 2010, European Union (EU) Heads of State and Government adopted a social inclusion target as part of the new ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’: to lift at least 20 million people in the EU from the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020. One of the three indicators used to monitor …Read More

Halleröd, Björn, Ekbrand, Hans, Bengtsson,  Mattias , (2015), “In-work poverty and labour market trajectories: Poverty risks among the working population in 22 European countries”, Journal of European Social Policy, Issue 5, Volume 25, pp.473-488, December  Is in-work poverty a low-wage or an unemployment problem, and is it the same problem all across Europe? Because of the definitional ambiguity, we really do not know. In this article, we use longitudinal European Union-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) …Read More