Projekt

The project strives to examine the dynamic relationship between elites and masses in policy-making about common defense in the multi-level European system. Two overarching questions lie at the heart of the project: what and how do elites and European mass publics think about greater (European) defense, security, and military integration? More specifically, the project wants to achieve the following objectives: (1) study what mass publics and security elites understand by "common defense", (2) estimate the level of public support or opposition to a vast array of possible forms of defense integration across Europe, including assessing support for some form of European military, (3) explore differences in citizen perceptions and preferences across regions within the EU, (4) identify individual-level values, predispositions, attitudes, and demographic factors that shape support or opposition to defense integration, (5) examine how elite cues, social cues, and real-world events affect defense integration attitudes, (6) analyze the interplay of media content, individual media exposure, and mass opinion towards European defense and security integration, and (7) evaluate how (and how accurately) elites perceive mass opinion toward European defense and security integration, and vice versa. The project combines qualitative (elite interviews) and quantitative research (surveys with embedded experiments and media content analysis) to examine what factors affect European security policy preferences. The primary focus lies on France, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain, four countries that will play important roles in European defense integration.

• Prof. Dr. Harald Schoen

  Universität Mannheim
  Mannheimer Zentrum für
  Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)
  Mannheim
  

• Prof. Dr. Pierangelo Isernia

  Università degli Studi di Siena
  Department of Social, Political and
  Cognitive Science
  Siena
  Italien
  

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Scotto

  University of Strathclyde
  Government and Public Policy
  Politics
  Glasgow
  Grossbritannien
  

• Prof. Dr. Jean Joana

  University of Montpellier I
  Political Science
  Montpellier Cedex 2
  Frankreich
  

• Dr. Catarina Thomson

  University of Exeter
  Department of Politics
  Exeter
  Grossbritannien
  

• Prof. Dr. Martial Foucault

  Science Po
  Political Science
  CEVIPOF (UMR CNRS 7048)
  Paris
  Frankreich
  

• Dr. Filip Ejdus

  University of Belgrade
  Faculty of Political Sciences
  Belgrade
  Serbien
  

• Dr. Bogdan Mihai Radu

  Universitatea Babes-Bolyai
  Faculty of Political, Administrative
  Department of Political Science
  and Communication Sciences (FSPAC)
  Cluj-Napoca
  Rumänien
  

• Dr. Matthias Mader

  Universität Mannheim
  Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
  Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft
  Lehrstuhl für Politische Psychologie
  Mannheim
  

• Prof. Dr. Theresa Kuhn

  University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  European Studies Department
  Amsterdam
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Seiki Tanaka

  University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  Political Science
  Political Economy and Transnational Governance
  Amsterdam
  Niederlande
  

• Prof. Dr. Jason Reifler

  University of Exeter
  Department of Politics
  Exeter
  Grossbritannien
  

• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hofmann

  The Graduate Institute of International
  and Development Studies
  International Relations and Political Science
  Geneva
  Schweiz
  

• Dr. Catherine Hoeffler

  Université catholique de Lille
  European School of Political and Social Sciences
  Lille
  Frankreich