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CLIMATE CHANGE
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE COOPERATION
This project focuses on the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Three questions motivate the project: 1) What are the domestic sources of national positions at the UNFCCC? 2) How does the salience of climate change affect negotiation behavior? 3) Can weak countries shape the final agreements at the climate negotiations? I collected an original dataset of countries' positions on several issues raised at the UNFCCC negotiations, with a content analysis of the National Communications and the climate agreements. The dataset tracks positions, salience and outcomes in the years before the Kyoto Protocol enforcement (2001-04) and the post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations (2008-11). Here are the "UNFCCC Negotiations Dataset" files and the coding notes.
CLIMATE POLICY AND COMPENSATION This project seeks to explain the role of compensation in mobilizing people in support of climate policy. We focus on the preferences of climate policy compensation of populations in the United States and India, as well as the people in targeted communities that are either at risk of the economic losses of decarbonization or are vulnerable to climate-related disasters. We fielded several surveys in the United States and India described in our APSR article. POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE VULNERABILITY Details: Major research project (PI) Funding: Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award Duration: 2024 - present Summary and Data This project has a website here. FINANCIAL CRISES, INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS, AND THE EU
Details: Collaborative project with Gerald Schneider and follow-up project with Hector Hermida Summary
The handling of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union has raised fears of democratic deficit and mass appraisal. Theoretical conjectures go that decision making in the countries of the Union has become less democratic, that the ECB now calls the shots in Europe, and that fiscal consolidation will exponentially increase the severity of mass protests. This project confronts these perspectives with a systematic analysis of historical information on European economic crises.
IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC OPINION
Details: Collaborative research project Funding: British Academy/Leverhulme; University of Essex ESSEXLab Duration: 2015 - present Summary Governments across developed countries growingly face decisions over whether to open their borders and provide welfare to foreign immigrants. Public opinion can be a major factor in the willingness of governments to use public funds for this purpose. This project looks at the scenario in which publics exposed to tragic migration — that is, migration that is linked to humanitarian crises and failures of international cooperation — assess the entry of migrants. We aim at clarifying how strongly emotional triggers affect considerations due to threats of social competition, past immigration experience and proximity to point of entry of immigrants. DataThe data collection focuses on Italy and involves surveys, archival work and media content analysis, as well as field experiments and qualitative interviews. Read the summary of research in Italy (including original interviews in Sicily) here. MASS WELFARE AND PROGRESSIVE TAXATION
Details: Postdoctoral research project with Ken Scheve and David Stasavage Funding: Stanford University and New York University Duration: 2013 - 2016 Summary Studying the evolution of income inequality requires information on taxation measures. This project seeks to track and understand historical top rates of income taxes in twenty developed countries from 1816 (or the date of national independence) until today. Data The database was compiled by consulting original legislation and fiscal documents for each of the twenty countries of interest. The final data and the related codebook can be found here.
Citation: Federica Genovese, Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage. Comparative Income Taxation Database. 2016. Stanford University Libraries SSDS Social Science Data Collection.
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