Indraneel Sircar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1406077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Indraneel Sircar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Indraneel |
| FAMILY NAME | Sircar |
| SIGNATURE | SIRCAR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7415-2862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Protest, empowerment, and voice: Exploring the electoral afterlife of the 2014 Bosnian popular assemblies
This article connects the literatures of psychological effects of protest (for participants and non-participants) and vote choice, identifying five voter pathways: staying, conversion, protest voting, vote spoiling, and alienation. On a general level, the study examines whether there is evidence of a longer-term impact of protest on elections, that is, a durable afterlife. The analysis employs a difference-in-differences approach using municipal …
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the Covid-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election
The 2020 US presidential election was won by Democrat challenger Joseph Biden over Republican incumbent Donald Trump and was contested during the global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Unemployment increased sharply during the pandemic but was followed by a large federal relief package. We investigate whether there was economic voting in the 2020 election, that is, whether the increased unemployment rate and the subsequent governmen…
Against Dictatorship, against Backsliding? Examining the Effect of Serbian Anti-Government Protests on the 2020 Electoral Boycott
The power of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has been steadily growing ever since 2012. The party has successfully taken control of all levels of government in Serbia, and the country has suffered from gradual democratic backsliding as a result. In this article, we focus on two protest waves in Serbia between 2017 and 2019. Crucially, a number of opposition parties involved in the more recent protest wave boycotted the 2020 parliamentary elec…
Looking beyond the East-West divide? Re-appraising the willingness to pay for environmental quality in 19 European countries
This article explores the diversity in willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental quality, highlighting distinctions not only between Eastern and Western Europe but also within former communist countries (FCCs). We obtain mixed results, with little evidence of a generational shift in WTP across birth cohorts, more rapid societal shifts in non-FCCs, and higher levels of baseline WTP in Southeast European FCCs. Drawing on our findings, we advocate …
The imitation game: Indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments
The European Union has sought to democratise its post-communist neighbours for the past three decades, starting with Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Since the end of the wars in Former Yugoslavia in 2000, the EU first pursued closer integration with the Western Balkans followed by the goal of enlargement. However, despite intensive EU involvement, the fight against corruption has stagnated or deteriorated in post-communist Europe, particul…
Polls and the Pandemic: Estimating the Electoral Effects of a Sars-CoV-2 Outbreak
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the associated Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have had far-reaching health, economic, social and political impacts. The latter is the focus of this research note, which proposes using a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the electoral impact of reported SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. The approach is illustrated using data from the 2020 Croatian parliamentary election. The outcomes of i…
Public-elite gap on European integration: The missing link between discourses among citizens and elites in Serbia
This article explores the relationship between elite and citizen discourses on European integration. We argue that imperfections in cue-making and cue-taking lead to a gap between elite and citizen discourses, especially in societies experiencing major changes. To investigate this, we use newly collected data from Serbia shortly after the delayed start of accession negotiations in 2014. Using vignettes for different citizen discourses, we coded s…
Transformation All the Way Down? European Union Integration and the Professional Socialization of Municipal Health Officials in Serbia
This article assesses whether different types of exposure to European Union (EU) modes of socialization are associated with differences in attitudes towards corruption, using Serbia as case study. Drawing on a survey of Serbian municipal health‐care officials, the article complements existing research on the impact of EU conditionality on attitudes at the national level, while also contributing to the understanding of the impact of domestic varia…
Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism
© 2018 University of Glasgow. On 1 December 2013, Croatia voted in a referendum on the constitutional definition of marriage. While recent scholarship has highlighted the symbolic nature of the referendum in domestic politics, its European dimension has not been considered. Using Leconte’s notion of value-based Euroscepticism, this article explores the role of European politics in the marriage referendum, using electoral data at the municipal lev…
Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe
The contributions to this volume on protest and activist citizenship in South East Europe (SEE) 1 delve far beyond discussions about the efficacy and legitimacy of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and social movement organisations that have dominated the study of civil society in post-communism.They focus instead on how certain types of citizenshipmost notably 'activist citizenship' -are forged or not forged; how citizens are drawn into 'act…
Europeanization of the Western Balkans: Environmental Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
Understanding and enhancing future infrastructure resiliency: A Socio-Ecological Approach
The resilience of any system, human or natural, centres on its capacity to adapt its structure, but not necessarily its function, to a new configuration in response to long-term socio-ecological change. In the long term, therefore, enhancing resilience involves more than simply improving a system's ability to resist an immediate threat or to recover to a stable past state. However, despite the prevalence of adaptive notions of resilience in acade…
Constructing Resilient Futures: Integrating UK multi-stakeholder transport and energy resilience for 2050
The 2005 terrorist attacks in London and 2007 flooding throughout the UK revealed the shortcomings of the UK Government approach of ‘governing through resilience’ in practice: low levels of stakeholder co-ordination, lack of understanding about critical infrastructure interdependencies, and little attention to long-term adaptation. We found that developing futures scenarios coupled with natural and malicious hazard episodes provided an effective …
Foreign donor assistance and environmental capacity building: Evidence from Serbia and Bosnia–Herzegovina
Early analyses of the impact of donor assistance for NGOs across post-socialist Eurasia documented the extent to which the ubiquitous new NGOs were disconnected from indigenous networks, lacked sustainable resources and capacity, and were accountable to donors rather than citizens and governments. Although this article does not entirely contest such conclusions, it examines the role of NGOs from a different normative perspective based on their ro…
Get the Party Started: Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in the Irish Free State Seanad (1922—36)
In this article, we investigate the effect of political parties on legislative behaviour. We compile and analyse a unique dataset of all roll-call votes for all the sessions of the Irish Free State Seanad (the Upper Chamber in the legislature, 1922—36). The development of legislative parties inside the Irish Seanad led to the formation of cohesive voting blocs after 1928. This caused dramatic shifts in the rank-ordering of members and changed the…
Compliance without governance: The role of NGOs in environmental impact assessment processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Both qualitative and quantitative research suggests that foreign donors (particularly the European Commission) have exerted a positive impact on environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the post-socialist, new member states of Central and Eastern Europe. Green networks have been institutionalised and the foundations for multi-level environmental governance appear to be in place. But to what extent is a similar impact occurring i…
Environmental politics in the Western Balkans: River basin management and non-governmental organisation (NGO) activity in Herzegovina
Environmental activism across the Western Balkan successor states of the former Yugoslavia, particularly in Bosnia–Herzegovina and Serbia, remains in its infancy. Compared to the movements of central and Eastern Europe, the development of environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in these states appears to be much slower. From the empirical perspective of non-governmental organisation activity concerning river basin management in Herze…
Forum Section: An Automated Database of the European Parliament
We present an automatically updatable database of background information about Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 1979 until the present. Although this information is already directly accessible through the European Parliament’s web page, it is presented in a manner that makes it ideal only for those interested in finding information about individual MEPs, but difficult for anyone interested in doing large-N analysis. We provide an on…
Forum Section: An Automated Database of the European Parliament
We present an automatically updatable database of background information about Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 1979 until the present. Although this information is already directly accessible through the European Parliament’s web page, it is presented in a manner that makes it ideal only for those interested in finding information about individual MEPs, but difficult for anyone interested in doing large-N analysis. We provide an on…
Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe
The contributions to this volume on protest and activist citizenship in South East Europe (SEE) 1 delve far beyond discussions about the efficacy and legitimacy of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and social movement organisations that have dominated the study of civil society in post-communism.They focus instead on how certain types of citizenshipmost notably 'activist citizenship' -are forged or not forged; how citizens are drawn into 'act…
Compliance without governance: The role of NGOs in environmental impact assessment processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Both qualitative and quantitative research suggests that foreign donors (particularly the European Commission) have exerted a positive impact on environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the post-socialist, new member states of Central and Eastern Europe. Green networks have been institutionalised and the foundations for multi-level environmental governance appear to be in place. But to what extent is a similar impact occurring i…
Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism
© 2018 University of Glasgow. On 1 December 2013, Croatia voted in a referendum on the constitutional definition of marriage. While recent scholarship has highlighted the symbolic nature of the referendum in domestic politics, its European dimension has not been considered. Using Leconte’s notion of value-based Euroscepticism, this article explores the role of European politics in the marriage referendum, using electoral data at the municipal lev…
Public-elite gap on European integration: The missing link between discourses among citizens and elites in Serbia
This article explores the relationship between elite and citizen discourses on European integration. We argue that imperfections in cue-making and cue-taking lead to a gap between elite and citizen discourses, especially in societies experiencing major changes. To investigate this, we use newly collected data from Serbia shortly after the delayed start of accession negotiations in 2014. Using vignettes for different citizen discourses, we coded s…
Transformation All the Way Down? European Union Integration and the Professional Socialization of Municipal Health Officials in Serbia
This article assesses whether different types of exposure to European Union (EU) modes of socialization are associated with differences in attitudes towards corruption, using Serbia as case study. Drawing on a survey of Serbian municipal health‐care officials, the article complements existing research on the impact of EU conditionality on attitudes at the national level, while also contributing to the understanding of the impact of domestic varia…
Against Dictatorship, against Backsliding? Examining the Effect of Serbian Anti-Government Protests on the 2020 Electoral Boycott
The power of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has been steadily growing ever since 2012. The party has successfully taken control of all levels of government in Serbia, and the country has suffered from gradual democratic backsliding as a result. In this article, we focus on two protest waves in Serbia between 2017 and 2019. Crucially, a number of opposition parties involved in the more recent protest wave boycotted the 2020 parliamentary elec…
Polls and the Pandemic: Estimating the Electoral Effects of a Sars-CoV-2 Outbreak
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the associated Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have had far-reaching health, economic, social and political impacts. The latter is the focus of this research note, which proposes using a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the electoral impact of reported SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. The approach is illustrated using data from the 2020 Croatian parliamentary election. The outcomes of i…
Understanding and enhancing future infrastructure resiliency: A Socio-Ecological Approach
The resilience of any system, human or natural, centres on its capacity to adapt its structure, but not necessarily its function, to a new configuration in response to long-term socio-ecological change. In the long term, therefore, enhancing resilience involves more than simply improving a system's ability to resist an immediate threat or to recover to a stable past state. However, despite the prevalence of adaptive notions of resilience in acade…
Foreign donor assistance and environmental capacity building: Evidence from Serbia and Bosnia–Herzegovina
Early analyses of the impact of donor assistance for NGOs across post-socialist Eurasia documented the extent to which the ubiquitous new NGOs were disconnected from indigenous networks, lacked sustainable resources and capacity, and were accountable to donors rather than citizens and governments. Although this article does not entirely contest such conclusions, it examines the role of NGOs from a different normative perspective based on their ro…
Get the Party Started: Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in the Irish Free State Seanad (1922—36)
In this article, we investigate the effect of political parties on legislative behaviour. We compile and analyse a unique dataset of all roll-call votes for all the sessions of the Irish Free State Seanad (the Upper Chamber in the legislature, 1922—36). The development of legislative parties inside the Irish Seanad led to the formation of cohesive voting blocs after 1928. This caused dramatic shifts in the rank-ordering of members and changed the…
Environmental politics in the Western Balkans: River basin management and non-governmental organisation (NGO) activity in Herzegovina
Environmental activism across the Western Balkan successor states of the former Yugoslavia, particularly in Bosnia–Herzegovina and Serbia, remains in its infancy. Compared to the movements of central and Eastern Europe, the development of environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in these states appears to be much slower. From the empirical perspective of non-governmental organisation activity concerning river basin management in Herze…
Constructing Resilient Futures: Integrating UK multi-stakeholder transport and energy resilience for 2050
The 2005 terrorist attacks in London and 2007 flooding throughout the UK revealed the shortcomings of the UK Government approach of ‘governing through resilience’ in practice: low levels of stakeholder co-ordination, lack of understanding about critical infrastructure interdependencies, and little attention to long-term adaptation. We found that developing futures scenarios coupled with natural and malicious hazard episodes provided an effective …
Forum Section: An Automated Database of the European Parliament
We present an automatically updatable database of background information about Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 1979 until the present. Although this information is already directly accessible through the European Parliament’s web page, it is presented in a manner that makes it ideal only for those interested in finding information about individual MEPs, but difficult for anyone interested in doing large-N analysis. We provide an on…
Get the Party Started: Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in the Irish Free State Seanad (1922—36)
In this article, we investigate the effect of political parties on legislative behaviour. We compile and analyse a unique dataset of all roll-call votes for all the sessions of the Irish Free State Seanad (the Upper Chamber in the legislature, 1922—36). The development of legislative parties inside the Irish Seanad led to the formation of cohesive voting blocs after 1928. This caused dramatic shifts in the rank-ordering of members and changed the…
Compliance without governance: The role of NGOs in environmental impact assessment processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Both qualitative and quantitative research suggests that foreign donors (particularly the European Commission) have exerted a positive impact on environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the post-socialist, new member states of Central and Eastern Europe. Green networks have been institutionalised and the foundations for multi-level environmental governance appear to be in place. But to what extent is a similar impact occurring i…
Environmental politics in the Western Balkans: River basin management and non-governmental organisation (NGO) activity in Herzegovina
Environmental activism across the Western Balkan successor states of the former Yugoslavia, particularly in Bosnia–Herzegovina and Serbia, remains in its infancy. Compared to the movements of central and Eastern Europe, the development of environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in these states appears to be much slower. From the empirical perspective of non-governmental organisation activity concerning river basin management in Herze…
Foreign donor assistance and environmental capacity building: Evidence from Serbia and Bosnia–Herzegovina
Early analyses of the impact of donor assistance for NGOs across post-socialist Eurasia documented the extent to which the ubiquitous new NGOs were disconnected from indigenous networks, lacked sustainable resources and capacity, and were accountable to donors rather than citizens and governments. Although this article does not entirely contest such conclusions, it examines the role of NGOs from a different normative perspective based on their ro…
Constructing Resilient Futures: Integrating UK multi-stakeholder transport and energy resilience for 2050
The 2005 terrorist attacks in London and 2007 flooding throughout the UK revealed the shortcomings of the UK Government approach of ‘governing through resilience’ in practice: low levels of stakeholder co-ordination, lack of understanding about critical infrastructure interdependencies, and little attention to long-term adaptation. We found that developing futures scenarios coupled with natural and malicious hazard episodes provided an effective …
Europeanization of the Western Balkans: Environmental Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
Understanding and enhancing future infrastructure resiliency: A Socio-Ecological Approach
The resilience of any system, human or natural, centres on its capacity to adapt its structure, but not necessarily its function, to a new configuration in response to long-term socio-ecological change. In the long term, therefore, enhancing resilience involves more than simply improving a system's ability to resist an immediate threat or to recover to a stable past state. However, despite the prevalence of adaptive notions of resilience in acade…
Activist Citizenship in Southeast Europe
The contributions to this volume on protest and activist citizenship in South East Europe (SEE) 1 delve far beyond discussions about the efficacy and legitimacy of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and social movement organisations that have dominated the study of civil society in post-communism.They focus instead on how certain types of citizenshipmost notably 'activist citizenship' -are forged or not forged; how citizens are drawn into 'act…
Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism
© 2018 University of Glasgow. On 1 December 2013, Croatia voted in a referendum on the constitutional definition of marriage. While recent scholarship has highlighted the symbolic nature of the referendum in domestic politics, its European dimension has not been considered. Using Leconte’s notion of value-based Euroscepticism, this article explores the role of European politics in the marriage referendum, using electoral data at the municipal lev…
Public-elite gap on European integration: The missing link between discourses among citizens and elites in Serbia
This article explores the relationship between elite and citizen discourses on European integration. We argue that imperfections in cue-making and cue-taking lead to a gap between elite and citizen discourses, especially in societies experiencing major changes. To investigate this, we use newly collected data from Serbia shortly after the delayed start of accession negotiations in 2014. Using vignettes for different citizen discourses, we coded s…
Transformation All the Way Down? European Union Integration and the Professional Socialization of Municipal Health Officials in Serbia
This article assesses whether different types of exposure to European Union (EU) modes of socialization are associated with differences in attitudes towards corruption, using Serbia as case study. Drawing on a survey of Serbian municipal health‐care officials, the article complements existing research on the impact of EU conditionality on attitudes at the national level, while also contributing to the understanding of the impact of domestic varia…
Polls and the Pandemic: Estimating the Electoral Effects of a Sars-CoV-2 Outbreak
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the associated Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have had far-reaching health, economic, social and political impacts. The latter is the focus of this research note, which proposes using a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the electoral impact of reported SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. The approach is illustrated using data from the 2020 Croatian parliamentary election. The outcomes of i…
The imitation game: Indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments
The European Union has sought to democratise its post-communist neighbours for the past three decades, starting with Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Since the end of the wars in Former Yugoslavia in 2000, the EU first pursued closer integration with the Western Balkans followed by the goal of enlargement. However, despite intensive EU involvement, the fight against corruption has stagnated or deteriorated in post-communist Europe, particul…
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the Covid-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election
The 2020 US presidential election was won by Democrat challenger Joseph Biden over Republican incumbent Donald Trump and was contested during the global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Unemployment increased sharply during the pandemic but was followed by a large federal relief package. We investigate whether there was economic voting in the 2020 election, that is, whether the increased unemployment rate and the subsequent governmen…
Against Dictatorship, against Backsliding? Examining the Effect of Serbian Anti-Government Protests on the 2020 Electoral Boycott
The power of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has been steadily growing ever since 2012. The party has successfully taken control of all levels of government in Serbia, and the country has suffered from gradual democratic backsliding as a result. In this article, we focus on two protest waves in Serbia between 2017 and 2019. Crucially, a number of opposition parties involved in the more recent protest wave boycotted the 2020 parliamentary elec…
Looking beyond the East-West divide? Re-appraising the willingness to pay for environmental quality in 19 European countries
This article explores the diversity in willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental quality, highlighting distinctions not only between Eastern and Western Europe but also within former communist countries (FCCs). We obtain mixed results, with little evidence of a generational shift in WTP across birth cohorts, more rapid societal shifts in non-FCCs, and higher levels of baseline WTP in Southeast European FCCs. Drawing on our findings, we advocate …
Protest, empowerment, and voice: Exploring the electoral afterlife of the 2014 Bosnian popular assemblies
This article connects the literatures of psychological effects of protest (for participants and non-participants) and vote choice, identifying five voter pathways: staying, conversion, protest voting, vote spoiling, and alienation. On a general level, the study examines whether there is evidence of a longer-term impact of protest on elections, that is, a durable afterlife. The analysis employs a difference-in-differences approach using municipal …
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Business (4 works)