The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choice in Germany, Canada, Switzerland & USA
Completed 2020. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grant #410-2008-00210 Researchers Antje Ellermann (PI) Research Assistants Matthew Gravelle, Clare McGovern, Aim Sinpeng, Valerie Freeland, Camille Desmares, Graeme Bant, Alberto Alcaraz Project Summary The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy seeks to account for the variety of immigration policies adopted by democratic […]
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and Far-Right Party Support in Europe
Ongoing 2020. This research was financially supported by the Institute for European Studies. Researchers Dr. Alan M. Jacobs (Professor of Political Science) Research Assistant Daniel Rojas Lozano (PhD Student of Political Student) Project Summary The literature on the rise of far-right parties in advanced democracies has been characterized by a vibrant debate over the degree […]
From Austerity to Mutual Spending? The Frugal Four and the Fiscal Policy Regime of the EU
Completed 2020. This research was financially supported by the Institute for European Studies. Project Name From Austerity to Mutual Spending? The Frugal Four and the Fiscal Policy Regime of the EU Researchers Dr. Kurt Huebner (Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet for European Integration and Global Political Economy) (PI) Research Assistant Henrik Jacobsen (PhD Student […]
Material Culture between Italy and China: Food, Fashion, and Architecture
Completed 2020. This research was financially supported by the Institute for European Studies. Project Name “Material Culture between Italy and China: Food, Fashion, and Architecture” Researchers Gaoheng Zhang, (Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, FHIS) (PI) Research Assistant Han Fei, (PhD candidate in French Studies, FHIS) Funding $2,000 IES Research Support This project will be the […]
The Comparative Study of Campaigns
Researchers Richard Johnston (PI) Research Assistants Alexandre Rivard, Sarah Lachance, Aaron Buffie, Spencer McKay Funding SSHRC, Humboldt Stiftung (Germany), German Longitudinal Election Study Project Description Citizens profess to despise election campaigns, which they see as coarse, expensive, and unnecessarily protracted, and as sites for character assassination if not outright manipulation. The shorter their duration and […]
Open Access Dostoevsky Scholarship
Ongoing 2020. This research was financially supported by the Institute for European Studies. Researchers Dr. Katherine Bowers (Associate Professor, CENES) (PI) Research Assistant Dorothee Leesing (PhD Candidate, CENES) Funding $3500 (112 hours of RA support from mid-August to mid-October) A substantial portion of Dr. Bowers recent research has focused on Dostoevsky’s works, and, in particular, […]
NEAR-EU: The Europeanization of Higher Education
UBC Researchers Prof. Kurt Huebner (Director of Research) Dr. Conrad King (PI) Research Assistants Jana Cleve (March – June 2017) Lindsey Wong (April – May 2017) Funding Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (80%) Co-financing by partner institutions (20%) Sept 2016 – Sept 2019, €373,415 Project Summary Near-EU is a project to establish a Nexus […]
The Ethics of Immigrant Admission
Project Name The Ethics of Immigrant Admission: Race, Gender, Class and Disability in Immigrant-receiving Democracies Researchers Antje Ellermann (PI) Research Assistants Madeleine Page Camille Desmares Klaudia Wegschaider Agustín Goenaga Salta Zumatova Alberto Alcaraz Funding Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant #435-2013-1065 Project Summary How do democratic societies select their prospective […]