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CLIMATE CHANGE
This project focuses on international climate negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The questions that motivate the project include: What are the domestic sources of national positions at the UNFCCC? How does the salience of climate change affect negotiation behavior? 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 National Communications and agreements 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 POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE VULNERABILITY Details: Major research project (PI) with a team of postdocs Funding: Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award Duration: 2024 - present This project's website with all the relevant information is here.
Details: Collaborative project with Gerald Schneider and follow-up project with Hector Hermida 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 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. The 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 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. 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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