✨ A silver bullet for EU migration policy?
🤔 @lutzphilipp.bsky.social and Maud Bachelet test whether Europeans support EU member states choosing their contribution to a common migration policy (border protection, money, relocation, etc.).
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Takeaway: Flexibility may help politically — but multidimensional sharing alone is unlikely to resolve Europe’s deeper migration divide.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#MigrationGovernance #PublicOpinion #EUPolitics
The article is part of our SNF Ambizione project on the politics of responsibility-sharing, which investigates under which conditions countries contribute to common European migration governance.
Strikingly, preferences look remarkably similar across countries.
Individual ideology matters more than structural national context.
Using public opinion data from six countries, we find:
• Broad support for responsibility-sharing in principle
• Clear variation across contribution types
• Relocation is least popular
• Financial contributions & joint border control receive more support
We ask: Can multidimensional responsibility-sharing — allowing countries to contribute in different ways — help bridge Europe’s migration divide?
Instead of only relocation, states could contribute financially, through border control, or via other forms of support.
📢 New article out in the Journal of European Public Policy (with @maudbachelet.bsky.social ):
Europe’s immigration divide: multidimensional responsibility-sharing as a solution?
Europe is deeply divided on migration. 🧵👇
🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/icel...
New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1
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Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out!
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💭 Based on @psrm.bsky.social research, @lutzphilipp.bsky.social & Marco Bitschnau reveal that many false beliefs about #Immigration are merely low-confidence guesses, rather than firmly held views. 🤔 This distinction has important implications for understanding public opinion.
➡️ bit.ly/3NvPq5i
German-speaking Swiss tend to expect greater #integration from ‘foreigners’ than from
‘people in general’. This bias, absent in French-speaking Switzerland, was measured by @s-manser-egli.bsky.social and @lutzphilipp.bsky.social as part of the NCCR "On the Move".
New piece in @goodauth.bsky.social on what Trump's actions in Venezuela might mean.
goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...
Not surprising. Eurobarometer survey has shown the same thing a few years ago. For a more comprehensive coverage of public misperceptions, see our review www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tout le monde ne doit pas s’intégrer au même degré
Notre recherche avec @s-manser-egli.bsky.social est présentée dans le magazine Horizons 👇
www.revue-horizons.ch/2025/12/04/t...
More Swiss than the Swiss --> Summary of our research into unequal integration norms www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/12/04/b...
De NRC interviewde Arend Lijphart de belangrijkste Nederlandse politicoloog www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Nicht alle müssen sich gleich stark integrieren. Das Horizonte-Magazin hat unsere Studie zu ungleichen Integrationsnormen zusammengefasst www.horizonte-magazin.ch/2025/12/04/n... @s-manser-egli.bsky.social
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
🧠 How inaccurate are public perceptions of immigration?
➡️ @lutzphilipp.bsky.social & M Bitschnau show that many supposed misperceptions are actually guesses, offering a sharper way to study how perceptions shape political attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨
Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
It's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right.
Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
@pzlotnik.bsky.social @lutzphilipp.bsky.social and Sandra Lavenex did research on this issue and traced the first migration control clauses in preferential trade agreements to the mid-1980s. They then became almost standard in different external agreements of the EU.
@politico.eu reports that the EU considers withdrawing trade benefits if a third country refuses to cooperate on readmission. While the EU seems to be more determined this time, this line of thinking is actually not new at all from a longitudinal perspective.
How do people form beliefs about complex topics?
Happy to report our Bayesian model of the psychology of Bayesian updating is out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! (w/ Gabriel Li & Krosnick)
If you gloss over the Greek, it's a new model for how to assess the impacts of information on summary judgments.
🚨 New policy paper 🚨
What to learn from the Dublin system for solidarity in EU asylum governance? We recommend more transparency, better pressure assessment & prioritizing relocations from more to less pressured states.
@ftrauner.bsky.social & Philipp Stutz (VUB)
www.epc.eu/publication/...
Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔
Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡
MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊
⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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