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Daniel Stegmueller

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Associate Professor of Political Science
Political Science
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Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-19

Journal Article Journal of Politics · October 1, 2024 Crises of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic may plausibly affect deep-seated attitudes of a large fraction of citizens. In particular, outcome-oriented theories imply that leaders’ performance in response to such adverse events shapes people’s views a ... Full text Cite

Endogenous Benchmarking and Government Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · April 23, 2024 When do cross-national comparisons enable citizens to hold governments accountable? According to recent work in comparative politics, benchmarking across borders is a powerful mechanism for making elections work. However, little attention has been paid to ... Full text Cite

Proportional Representation and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from Electoral System Change in Europe

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 25, 2023 How much do electoral institutions matter for the rise of populist parties? Evidence on this question is mixed, with some scholars arguing that the role of electoral rules is small. We provide new evidence for the impact of electoral system change. The UK' ... Full text Cite

Ideology and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative perspective.

Journal Article Social science quarterly · September 2021 ObjectiveWe measure the prevalence of noncompliance with public health guidelines in the COVID-19 pandemic and examine how it is shaped by political ideology across countries.MethodsA list experiment of noncompliance and a multi-item scal ... Full text Cite

Reducing unequal representation: The impact of labor unions on legislative responsiveness in the U.S. Congress

Journal Article Perspectives on Politics · March 1, 2021 Featured Publication It has long been recognized that economic inequality may undermine the principle of equal responsiveness that lies at the core of democratic governance. A recent wave of scholarship has highlighted an acute degree of political inequality in contemporary de ... Full text Cite

Comment on Elff et al.

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

A guilt-free strategy increases self-reported non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures: Experimental evidence from 12 countries.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2021 Studies of citizens' compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures routinely rely on survey data. While such data are essential, public health restrictions provide clear signals of what is socially desirable in this context, creating a potential source of r ... Full text Cite

The Political Geography of the Eurocrisis

Journal Article World Politics · October 1, 2020 The European Union provided a mixed response to the 2008 financial crisis. On the one hand, it refused to pursue fiscal integration through a common budget; on the other, it introduced significant transfers between countries that were designed to produce f ... Full text Cite

Who wants what?: Redistribution preferences in comparative perspective

Book · August 22, 2019 Why do some people support redistributive policies such as a generous welfare state, social policy or protections for the poor, and others do not? The (often implicit) model behind much of comparative politics and political economy starts with redistributi ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2019 Cite

Conclusion

Chapter · 2019 Cite

Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-19

Journal Article Journal of Politics · October 1, 2024 Crises of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic may plausibly affect deep-seated attitudes of a large fraction of citizens. In particular, outcome-oriented theories imply that leaders’ performance in response to such adverse events shapes people’s views a ... Full text Cite

Endogenous Benchmarking and Government Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · April 23, 2024 When do cross-national comparisons enable citizens to hold governments accountable? According to recent work in comparative politics, benchmarking across borders is a powerful mechanism for making elections work. However, little attention has been paid to ... Full text Cite

Proportional Representation and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from Electoral System Change in Europe

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 25, 2023 How much do electoral institutions matter for the rise of populist parties? Evidence on this question is mixed, with some scholars arguing that the role of electoral rules is small. We provide new evidence for the impact of electoral system change. The UK' ... Full text Cite

Ideology and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative perspective.

Journal Article Social science quarterly · September 2021 ObjectiveWe measure the prevalence of noncompliance with public health guidelines in the COVID-19 pandemic and examine how it is shaped by political ideology across countries.MethodsA list experiment of noncompliance and a multi-item scal ... Full text Cite

Reducing unequal representation: The impact of labor unions on legislative responsiveness in the U.S. Congress

Journal Article Perspectives on Politics · March 1, 2021 Featured Publication It has long been recognized that economic inequality may undermine the principle of equal responsiveness that lies at the core of democratic governance. A recent wave of scholarship has highlighted an acute degree of political inequality in contemporary de ... Full text Cite

Comment on Elff et al.

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

A guilt-free strategy increases self-reported non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures: Experimental evidence from 12 countries.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2021 Studies of citizens' compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures routinely rely on survey data. While such data are essential, public health restrictions provide clear signals of what is socially desirable in this context, creating a potential source of r ... Full text Cite

The Political Geography of the Eurocrisis

Journal Article World Politics · October 1, 2020 The European Union provided a mixed response to the 2008 financial crisis. On the one hand, it refused to pursue fiscal integration through a common budget; on the other, it introduced significant transfers between countries that were designed to produce f ... Full text Cite

Who wants what?: Redistribution preferences in comparative perspective

Book · August 22, 2019 Why do some people support redistributive policies such as a generous welfare state, social policy or protections for the poor, and others do not? The (often implicit) model behind much of comparative politics and political economy starts with redistributi ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2019 Cite

Conclusion

Chapter · 2019 Cite

Models of Other-Regarding Preferences, Inequality, and Redistribution

Journal Article Annual Review of Political Science · May 11, 2018 Despite the increasing popularity of comparative work on other-regarding preferences, the implications of different models of altruism are not always fully understood. This article analyzes different theoretical approaches to altruism and explores what emp ... Full text Open Access Cite

Local union organization and law making in the US congress

Journal Article Journal of Politics · April 1, 2018 Featured Publication The political power of labor unions is a contentious issue in the social sciences. Departing from the dominant focus on membership size, we argue that unions’ influence on national law making is based to an important degree on their local organization. We ... Full text Cite

The altruistic rich? Inequality and other-regarding preferences for redistribution

Journal Article Quarterly Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2017 What determines support among individuals for redistributive policies? Do individuals care about others when they assess the consequences of redistribution? This article proposes a model of other-regarding preferences for redistribution, which we term inco ... Full text Cite

The Externalities of Inequality: Fear of Crime and Preferences for Redistribution in Western Europe

Journal Article American Journal of Political Science · March 1, 2016 Featured Publication Why is the difference in redistribution preferences between the rich and the poor high in some countries and low in others? In this article, we argue that it has a lot to do with the rich and very little to do with the poor. We contend that while there is ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Political Economy of Risk and Ideology

Scholarly Edition · 2015 This paper argues for the central role of risk aversion in shaping political ideology. We develop a political economy model, which makes explicit the link between risk aversion, the labor market, government policy, and ideology. Our model distinguishes the ... Cite

Bayesian hierarchical age-period-cohort models with time-structured effects: An application to religious voting inthe US, 1972-2008

Journal Article Electoral Studies · March 1, 2014 To examine dynamics of political processes using repeated cross-section data, effects of age, cohort, and time period have to be disentangled. I propose a Bayesian dynamic hierarchical model with cohort and period effects modeled as random walk through tim ... Full text Cite

Religion and redistributive voting in Western Europe

Journal Article Journal of Politics · October 1, 2013 Why some individuals, who would clearly benefit from redistribution, do not vote for parties offering redistributive policies is an old puzzle of redistributive politics. Recent work in political economy offers an explanation based on the interplay between ... Full text Cite

Modeling dynamic preferences: A Bayesian robust dynamic latent ordered probit model

Journal Article Political Analysis · January 1, 2013 Much politico-economic research on individuals' preferences is cross-sectional and does not model dynamic aspects of preference or attitude formation. I present a Bayesian dynamic panel model, which facilitates the analysis of repeated preferences using in ... Full text Cite

How many countries for multilevel modeling? A comparison of frequentist and bayesian approaches

Journal Article American Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2013 Researchers in comparative research increasingly use multilevel models to test effects of country-level factors on individual behavior and preferences. However, the asymptotic justification of widely employed estimation strategies presumes large samples an ... Full text Cite

Support for redistribution in western Europe: Assessing the role of religion

Journal Article European Sociological Review · August 1, 2012 Previous sociological studies have paid little attention to religion as a central determinant of individual preferences for redistribution. In this article we argue that religious individuals, living in increasingly secular societies, differ in political p ... Full text Cite

Apples and Oranges? The problem of equivalence in comparative research

Journal Article Political Analysis · October 1, 2011 Researchers in comparative research are increasingly relying on individual level data to test theories involving unobservable constructs like attitudes and preferences. Estimation is carried out using large-scale cross-national survey data providing respon ... Full text Cite

The individual-level dynamics of bounded partisanship

Journal Article Public Opinion Quarterly · September 1, 2011 Over the past half century, scholars have utilized a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to study the attachment or identification voters have with political parties. However, models of partisan (in)stability ignore its bounded character. ... Full text Cite

Apples and Oranges? The Problem of Equivalence in Comparative Research

Journal Article Political Analysis · September 2011 Cite

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Labor Unions and Unequal Representation

Scholarly Edition Recent research has documented that lawmakers are more responsive to the views of the affluent than to the less well-off. This raises the important question of whether there are institutions that can limit unequal representation. We argue that labor unions ... Cite