“The Politics of Bad Options. Why the Eurozone’s problems have been so hard to resolve”, co-authored with @ariray and @niredeker, is out at @OUPPolitics.

As promised, here is a thread on what it is about:

global.oup.com/academic/produ… Why was the Euro crisis so hard to resolve? Why were crisis resolution cost so unequally distributed? Why did no country leave the euro? And who supported and opposed different policy options domestically?

Our book sets out to answer these questions.

Wohoo!

@ariray’s, @niredeker’s book on Eurozone crisis politics – «The Politics of Bad Options» is out at @OUPPolitics today!

global.oup.com/academic/produ… If you have ever wondered…
– why crisis resolution cost were so unequally distributed in the Euro crisis
– why no country left the Eurozone
– who supported and opposed different Euro crisis policy options domestically
this book is for you.

global.oup.com/academic/produ…

1.Lots of surprise in UK media that EU member states were not more accommodating in the Brexit negotiations in Salzburg. Much less on continent, it’s what the EU-27 has been saying all along.

But importantly, it’s also what the EU public supports. Here’s the evidence:

Thread 2. Some context: This data is from an online-survey of 9423 EU-27 citizens run by @daliaresearch in June 2018 (I designed the questionnaire, it’s from a larger research project I am conducting on EU-27 responses to Brexit).

One of my favorite papers, "Noncooperation by popular vote", co-authored with @IgnacioJurado, @EliasDinas and @nikkon7, is finally out in print:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Here’s what it is about (Thread): 2.We examine voting behavior in national referendums that reject international cooperation and thus creates strategic incentives for foreign governments to get involved.