Posted on Wednesday 30th November 2011
A 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant has been awarded to Sven Steinmo , for his project "Willing to Pay? Testing Historical Institutionalism with Experiments".
The project will combine experimental techniques and methodologies with classical historical analysis in order to test and explore the relationships between institutions, policy regimes and citizen’s policy choices in different welfare states. The research will extend the current work in experimental economics and cognitive science by designing experiments that are modeled on real world institutions and policy choices in several different countries.
The research will focus on two sets of redistributive policy issues: Taxation and public pensions in five democratic nations: Sweden, Italy, Britain, Hungary and the United States. The basic point will be to build a series of scenarios that will allow us to test how different institutional contexts frame or shape citizens’ decisions and thereby better understand how they perceive and process different policy choices and trade-offs.
EUI faculty members have recently received three ERC Advanced Grants and one ERC Starting Grant; this is the fifth prestigious ERC Grant obtained by the EUI faculty.
ERC Grants to Donatella Della Porta and Olivier Roy .
ERC Grant to Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz .