함현호 교수

At the beginning of 2012, the 17 countries of the eurozone and eight of the ten remaining countries of the EU reached an agreement on the Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination, and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG, known as the Fiscal Compact). The article traces six successive drafts of the agreement to discover how these countries reached agreement. We argue that there are three different procedures that can lead different actors with veto power over an agreement to suspend the

As European integration has become politicised over the last several decades, scholars have paid keen attention to the role of identity in shaping political conflicts and contestation in Europe. This article investigates the microfoundation of the political divide over European integration by building on and extending theories of social identity and recent studies on affective polarisation. Large-scale survey experiment data from 25 European Union member states are analysed to explore the extent

Abstract In the face of the discourse about the democratic deficit and declining public support for the European Union (EU), institutionalist scholars have examined the roles of institutions in EU decision making and in particular the implications of the empowered European Parliament. Almost in isolation from this literature, prior research on public attitudes toward the EU has largely adopted utilitarian, identity and informational accounts that focus on individual‐level attributes. By combinin

Abstract What type of trade agreement is the public willing to accept? Instead of focusing on individual concerns about market access and trade barriers, we argue that specific treaty design and, in particular, the characteristics of the dispute settlement mechanism, play a critical role in shaping public support for trade agreements. To examine this theoretical expectation, we conduct a conjoint experiment that varies diverse treaty-design elements and estimate preferences over multiple dimensi

Highlighting the strength of “partyism” in many democracies, recent scholarship pays keen attention to increasing hostility and distrust among citizens across party lines, known as affective polarization. By combining a conjoint analysis with decision-making games such as dictator and trust games, we design a novel survey experiment to systematically estimate and compare the strength of the partisan divide relative to other social divides across 25 European democracies. This design also allows u

Highlighting the strength of ‘partyism’ in many democracies, recent scholarship pays keen attention to increasing hostility and distrust among citizens across party lines, known as affective polarization. By combining a conjoint analysis with decision-making games such as dictator and trust games, we design a novel survey experiment to systematically estimate and compare the strength of the partisan divide relative to other social divides across 25 European democracies. This design also allows u

This dissertation examines the theoretical link between institutional setting for policy making and partisanship both in the electorate and the legislature in a consistent framework. I confirm this relationship by analyzing both observational data and experimental data in the three following papers. The first paper, “Partisans in Institutional Context: Institutional Constraints on Policy Change and Mass Partisanship,” examines how political institutions constrain political parties, and thus infl

What type of trade agreement is the public willing to accept? Instead of focusing on individual concerns about market access and trade barriers, we argue that specific treaty design and, in particular, the characteristics of the dispute settlement mechanism, play a critical role in shaping public support for trade agreements. To examine this theoretical expectation, we conduct a conjoint experiment that varies diverse treaty-design elements and estimate preferences over multiple dimensions of th

초록·키워드 목차 오류제보하기 대중들이 제도적인 특징이 지니는 정책적 함의를 이해할 수 있다는 가정은 정치제도 분야와 정치행태 분야를 연결짓는 최근의 연구들의 핵심적인 전제임에도 불구하고, 이러한 미시적 가정에 대한 체계적인 검토는 충분히 이루어지지 않았다. 본 연구는, 18세 이상의 미국 성인들을 대상으로 한 설문실험(survey experiment) 방법을 이용하여, 시민들이 "제도적 신호(institutional cues)"와 "엘리트 신호(elite cues)"를 활용하여 주어진 제도적 맥락으로부터 정책적 함의를 추론해낼 수 있음을 보여주는 경험적 증거를 제시한다. 특히, 본 연구는 시민들이 분점정부와 단점정부와 같은 쉽게 관찰할 수 있는 제도적 특징들과 기대되는 정책변화에 대한 엘리트들의 의견을 결합하여 정책변화의 정도에 대한 인식을 형성할 수 있다는 것을 보여준다. 또한, 본 연구의 분석 결과는 이러한 정책 변화에 대한 인식이 당파적 신념(partisan beliefs)을