European University Institute

Graduate Student, Political and Social Science

Thesis Title: The influence of the welfare state on individual attitudes towards European integration

About

I am a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute, in political science.
I graduated in 2008 from Science Po Paris (Research Master in European comparative politics).
From 2007 to 2010, I worked as research assistant and associate doctoral student for the European Institutions Observatory (Centre d'Etudes Européennes de Science Po). I contributed to building and analysing an extensive database on the decision-making process within the European Union.
My research interests lay on European integration, European citizenship, public opinion, welfare states, and cross-national surveys. My PhD thesis investigates the link that individuals make between the welfare state in their country and European integration. Using quantitative methods, the analysis includes, as explanatory factors for support for Europe, individual attitudes towards the welfare state (evaluation of the welfare regime and political values related to social protection) as well as the contextual influence of welfare regime, at the aggregate level.
From 2010 to 2011, I co-chaired the EUI Colloquium on Political Behaviour. The coloquium offers researchers and fellows concerned with all kinds of political behavior a platform to discuss their work.

From september 2011 to January 2012, I was a visiting research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, at University of California at Irvine.

My current work includes:

- An analysis of the multidimensionality of support for Europe and European identity. Part of this work is being published in:
Beaudonnet, Laurie & Danilo Di Mauro (2012). ‘Support for Europe: Assessing the complexity of individual attitudes’, In: Beaudonnet, Laurie and Danilo Di Mauro (eds) ‘Beyond Euro-skepticism: Understanding attitudes towards the EU’, European Integration online Papers EIoP), Special Issue 2, Vol. 16, Article 9, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2012-009a.htm

- “Is the grass always greener on the other side? Explaining citizens’ trust in European institutions.” Paper on the comparative analysis of individual trusts in European and national institutions, with Raul Gomez, European University Institute.

- “Protecting us, Protecting Europe? Attitudes Towards Migrants and Euroskepticism in Italy.” Paper on attitudes towards Europe and the immigration issue in Italy, with Roxana  Barbulescu, European University Institute.

- “The Impact Of Redistribution On Attitudes Towards Europe: A Time Series Analysis”. Paper on the time dynamic of support for Europe in the EU Twelve, from 1986 to 2009.

-  “Miscontruing the European project? How welfare issues colour attitudes towards Europe.” Paper on the impact of welfare concerns on voting behaviour for 2009 European elections (PIREDEU data)
paper downloadable at http://www.piredeu.eu/public/FConf2010_papers.asp

- Methodological work on multilevel analysis and interaction modelling, with Pr. Mark Franklin, European University Institute and Dr. Lorenzo De Sio,  European University Institute

- Analysis of non attitudes towards European integration: how to differentiate from neutral and ambivalent attitudes, and how to handle them empirically.

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