JMintheUS Webinar: Crisis Signaling: Italy's COVID-19 Lockdown & Incumbent Support in EU countries

Event information
Start:
End:
Venue:Webinar

The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence would like to share this upcoming webinar organized by the University of Florida and part of the #JMintheUS event series.

Image

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unparalleled global crisis. Yet, despite the grave adversity faced by citizens, incumbents around the world experienced a boost in popularity during the onset of the outbreak. In this study, we examine how the response to the COVID-19 outbreak in one country has affected incumbent support in other countries. Specifically, we leverage the fact that the first country-wide lockdown on European soil, in Italy on March 9, 2020, happened during the fieldwork of online surveys conducted in four other European countries, France, Germany, Poland and Spain.

ImageSpeaker: Catherine De Vries, Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University and Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime of the BAFFI-CAREFIN research center and the Bocconi COVID crisis.
Catherine E. De Vries is a political scientist who examines the key challenges facing the European continent today, such as Euroscepticism, political fragmentation, migration and corruption. She is a professor of political science at Bocconi University, Milan. She is the author of several books, including her most recent book Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe (Princeton University Press), co-authored with Sara Hobolt. She is currently working on the conditions under which economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas and role the COVID crisis plays in this regard. This research project (LOSS) is funded through a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________

► To register, click here
_____________________________________________________________________________________________

► To view flyer, click here
_____________________________________________________________________________________________

This event is part of the #JMintheUS speaker series, an initiative of Jean Monnet Centers in the US. It is co-sponsored by the University of Florida Center for European Studies Center and University of Florida Center for European Studies.

Image