Toward a Liberal Mood? A Multilevel Analysis of Public Support for State in the European Union Between 1990 and 2008

This working paper investigates support for state in the European Union cross-nationally and longitudinally using data from the European Values Survey. Analyses are carried out at different levels. At the individual level, we go beyond the opposition between self-interest and symbolic orientations by showing that they both matter and combine to influence statist attitudes. At group level, we assess the issue of parallel opinion moves over time and find uniform, although divided, trends among subpublics. At the country level, we suggest that dynamics of opinion respond to changes in the economic environment, but do not necessarily respond according to a thermostatic model. Our results thus prove relevant for the European case most of the findings previous scholars have highlighted for the American case

Evidence from the gilets jaunes: which candidates win the support of populist voters?

Populist voters are often assumed to be driven by anger or disillusionment with the political system. But does this overlook the possibility that many citizens simply believe populist policies would benefit society? Drawing on a study of the French gilets jaunes, Frédéric Gonthier and Tristan Guerra explain that concerns about wider society have a major impact on the choices populist voters make at the ballot box

Neural signature of inattentional deafness

Inattentional deafness is the failure to hear otherwise audible sounds (usually alarms) that may occur under high workload conditions. One potential cause for its occurrence could be an atten- tional bottleneck that occurs when task demands are high, resulting in lack of resources for processing of additional tasks. In this fMRI experiment, we explore the brain regions active during the occurrence of inattentional deafness using a difficult perceptual-motor task in which the participants fly through a simulated Red Bull air race course and at the same time push a button on the joystick to the presence of audio alarms. Participants were instructed to focus on the difficult piloting task and to press the button on the joystick quickly when they noticed an audio alarm. The fMRI results revealed that audio misses relative to hits had significantly greater activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus IFG and the superior medial frontal cortex. Consistent with an attentional bottleneck, activity in these regions was also present for poor flying performance (contrast of gates missed versus gates passed for the flying task). A psychophysiological interaction analysis from the IFG identified reduced effective connectivity to auditory processing regions in the right superior temporal gyrus for missed audio alarms relative to audio alarms that were heard. This study identifies a neural signature of inattentional deafness in an ecologically valid situation by directly measuring differences in brain activity and effective connectivity between audio alarms that were not heard compared to those that were heard

Les risques et pollutions industriels sur le territoire dunkerquois : des perceptions à la « concertation

Irénée Zwarterook est un collectif de chercheurs de l'Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale et d'un chercheur de l'UMR Pacte; Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble) http://www.icsi-eu.org/francais/dev_cs/cahiers

Do Opinion Groups Move in Concert in Tough Times? Support for Income Redistribution in Europe between 2006 and 2012

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Les Français et la Sécurité sociale dans les grandes enquêtes nationales et internationales. Un soutien fort et durable

National audienceLe débat citoyen est saturé par de multiples critiques sur la Sécurité sociale et son efficacité. Les résultats des grandes enquêtes d’opinion nationales et internationales permettent de relativiser l’impact de ces critiques en montrant que les Français restent très attachés à leur système de protection sociale. Ils aident aussi à mettre en perspective cet attachement des Français, qui est en fait loin de constituer une exception à l’échelle européenne. À rebours de ce que l’on appelle parfois le « consensus libéral » des élites européennes, les grandes enquêtes renvoient l’image d’un large consensus populaire sur les grandes fonctions de la Sécurité sociale

When ideological lenses crack. The joint effect of the Great Recession and clarity of government responsibility on economic assessments

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When Gen Xers and Millennials catch up. Religiosity and generational gaps in social altruism

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