Sonja D Schmid
Biographic Data
| ID | 232179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja D Schmid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja D |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmid |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMID S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1105-3071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies h…
Enfranchisement regimes beyond de-territorialization and post-nationalism: Definitions, Implications, and Public Support for Different Electorates
This article starts from the premise that those who debate and study the expansion of demoi/electorates – from practitioners to empirical scholars and normative theorists – should consider more seriously that migrants are always immigrants and emigrants at the same time. Doing so implies, first, that states can regulate their electorates through four distinct "enfranchisement regimes" in times of transnational mobility: (1) national, (2) territor…
Stagnated Liberalization, Long‐term Convergence, and Index Methodology: Three Lessons from the Citrix Citizenship Policy Dataset
In this article, I present the second version of the Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index (CITRIX 2.0). It measures the inclusiveness of regulations for immigrants’ access to citizenship across 23 OECD countries from 1980 to 2019, zooming in on four essential policy components: conditions regarding (1) birthright; (2) residence; (3) renunciation; and (4) integration. While explaining the construction of the dataset, I advance a synthetic approa…
"Worst Cases" Reimagined in a Post-Covid Context
We argue that the post-Fukushima nuclear safety debates in the United States and Europe fundamentally altered the definition of nuclear safety. In the United States, the industry effectively took control by strengthening technical measures as the solution to nuclear safety concerns. In France, technical solutions were part of the process, but they were less dominant than in the United States and were overshadowed by larger organizational shuffles…
The Age of Hiroshima
The architecture of national boundary regimes: Mapping immigration and citizenship policies in 23 democracies 1980–2010
In this article, I introduce a typology that maps the regulation of two fundamental boundaries of modern nation-states regarding immigration: territorial boundaries and membership boundaries. Based on a theory of the structural logics underlying Immigration Regime Openness (IRO) and Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness (CRI), I make four observations on the two-dimensional policy space determined by the relative porousness of these two boundaries. Fi…
Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries
Elaborating a popular assumption about the effects of immigration policies on the integration of migrants, we argue in this article that more restrictive immigration policies lead to the selection of immigrants with greater integration potential, and that this selection should foster migrant integration. To test this argument, we combine country-level data from the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database with individual-level data on …
Chernobyl the TV Series: On Suspending the Truth or What's the Benefit of Lies
HBO's 2019 miniseries Chernobyl has catapulted the world's worst nuclear disaster back into public awareness with stunning cinematography and captivating dramaturgy. For historians of technology, however, its portrayal of Soviet reactor technology, as well as its baffling omission of the disaster mitigation's most successful feat-the construction of a gigantic concrete entombment-present challenges beyond simple claims to authenticity. Are histor…
Non-universal suffrage: Measuring electoral inclusion in contemporary democracies
The electoral franchise has become more universal as restrictions based on criteria such as sex or property have been lifted throughout the process of democratisation. Yet, a broad range of exclusions has persisted to this date, making the suffrage non-universal, even in established democracies. In this article, we present ELECLAW, a new set of indicators that captures the subtle and variegated legal landscape of persisting electoral rights restr…
A new “nuclear normalcy”
This article focuses on a part of the “nuclear condition” that is often overlooked in philosophical discussions: that of materiality. Connecting the spheres of nuclear weapons (and associated security threats), and of nuclear power generation (and associated safety concerns), are the materials that bombs and electricity can be made of, and the machines that produce either enriched uranium or plutonium. We now have evidence of just how fragile the…
Democratic Deficits in Europe: The Overlooked Exclusiveness of Nation‐States and the Positive Role of the European Union
With the help of the Immigrant Inclusion Index (IMIX), a quantitative tool for measuring the electoral inclusion of immigrants, we demonstrate that European democracies are much more exclusive than they should be. All normative theories of democracy share the conviction that it is imperative that democracies include long‐term immigrant residents into the demos – either by granting citizenship or by introducing alien voting rights. But even the 20…
Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex (review)
Organizational Culture and Professional Identities in the Soviet Nuclear Power Industry
This essay describes the evolution and interaction of powerful constituencies within the Soviet nuclear energy community since the late 1950s. It elucidates the historical origins of the alleged distinction between nuclear specialists (atomshchiki) and power engineers (energetiki) and explores why there was not more disagreement with and resistance to state authorities. The emerging civilian nuclear industry faced the dual legacy of the atomic bo…
Celebrating Tomorrow Today: The Peaceful Atom on Display in the Soviet Union
This paper introduces the history of a unique museum of nuclear energy, the Pavilion for Atomic Energy at the ‘ Exhibition of the Achievements of the People’s Economy’ ( VDNKh) in Moscow, from its inception in 1956 to its closing in 1989. The analytical goal is to unpack the kind of social order that was implicit in the way visitors to the pavilion were envisioned. The paper proposes that the pavilion’s exhibitions on nuclear energy, staged as pi…
Transformation Discourse: Nuclear Risk as a Strategic Tool in Late Soviet Politics of Expertise
In this article, the author examines an exemplary part of the Soviet media discussion following the Chernobyl disaster. She traces transformations in this discourse affecting the concepts of risk and uncertainty and indicates their relevance for the reconfiguration of the relationships between the state, scientific experts, and the public. Chernobyl occurred during a period of unprecedented potential for change: in the wake of Gorbachev's perestr…
Non-universal suffrage: Measuring electoral inclusion in contemporary democracies
The electoral franchise has become more universal as restrictions based on criteria such as sex or property have been lifted throughout the process of democratisation. Yet, a broad range of exclusions has persisted to this date, making the suffrage non-universal, even in established democracies. In this article, we present ELECLAW, a new set of indicators that captures the subtle and variegated legal landscape of persisting electoral rights restr…
Democratic Deficits in Europe: The Overlooked Exclusiveness of Nation‐States and the Positive Role of the European Union
With the help of the Immigrant Inclusion Index (IMIX), a quantitative tool for measuring the electoral inclusion of immigrants, we demonstrate that European democracies are much more exclusive than they should be. All normative theories of democracy share the conviction that it is imperative that democracies include long‐term immigrant residents into the demos – either by granting citizenship or by introducing alien voting rights. But even the 20…
Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries
Elaborating a popular assumption about the effects of immigration policies on the integration of migrants, we argue in this article that more restrictive immigration policies lead to the selection of immigrants with greater integration potential, and that this selection should foster migrant integration. To test this argument, we combine country-level data from the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database with individual-level data on …
Enfranchisement regimes beyond de-territorialization and post-nationalism: Definitions, Implications, and Public Support for Different Electorates
This article starts from the premise that those who debate and study the expansion of demoi/electorates – from practitioners to empirical scholars and normative theorists – should consider more seriously that migrants are always immigrants and emigrants at the same time. Doing so implies, first, that states can regulate their electorates through four distinct "enfranchisement regimes" in times of transnational mobility: (1) national, (2) territor…
Celebrating Tomorrow Today: The Peaceful Atom on Display in the Soviet Union
This paper introduces the history of a unique museum of nuclear energy, the Pavilion for Atomic Energy at the ‘ Exhibition of the Achievements of the People’s Economy’ ( VDNKh) in Moscow, from its inception in 1956 to its closing in 1989. The analytical goal is to unpack the kind of social order that was implicit in the way visitors to the pavilion were envisioned. The paper proposes that the pavilion’s exhibitions on nuclear energy, staged as pi…
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies h…
Transformation Discourse: Nuclear Risk as a Strategic Tool in Late Soviet Politics of Expertise
In this article, the author examines an exemplary part of the Soviet media discussion following the Chernobyl disaster. She traces transformations in this discourse affecting the concepts of risk and uncertainty and indicates their relevance for the reconfiguration of the relationships between the state, scientific experts, and the public. Chernobyl occurred during a period of unprecedented potential for change: in the wake of Gorbachev's perestr…
The architecture of national boundary regimes: Mapping immigration and citizenship policies in 23 democracies 1980–2010
In this article, I introduce a typology that maps the regulation of two fundamental boundaries of modern nation-states regarding immigration: territorial boundaries and membership boundaries. Based on a theory of the structural logics underlying Immigration Regime Openness (IRO) and Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness (CRI), I make four observations on the two-dimensional policy space determined by the relative porousness of these two boundaries. Fi…
A new “nuclear normalcy”
This article focuses on a part of the “nuclear condition” that is often overlooked in philosophical discussions: that of materiality. Connecting the spheres of nuclear weapons (and associated security threats), and of nuclear power generation (and associated safety concerns), are the materials that bombs and electricity can be made of, and the machines that produce either enriched uranium or plutonium. We now have evidence of just how fragile the…
Organizational Culture and Professional Identities in the Soviet Nuclear Power Industry
This essay describes the evolution and interaction of powerful constituencies within the Soviet nuclear energy community since the late 1950s. It elucidates the historical origins of the alleged distinction between nuclear specialists (atomshchiki) and power engineers (energetiki) and explores why there was not more disagreement with and resistance to state authorities. The emerging civilian nuclear industry faced the dual legacy of the atomic bo…
Transformation Discourse: Nuclear Risk as a Strategic Tool in Late Soviet Politics of Expertise
In this article, the author examines an exemplary part of the Soviet media discussion following the Chernobyl disaster. She traces transformations in this discourse affecting the concepts of risk and uncertainty and indicates their relevance for the reconfiguration of the relationships between the state, scientific experts, and the public. Chernobyl occurred during a period of unprecedented potential for change: in the wake of Gorbachev's perestr…
Celebrating Tomorrow Today: The Peaceful Atom on Display in the Soviet Union
This paper introduces the history of a unique museum of nuclear energy, the Pavilion for Atomic Energy at the ‘ Exhibition of the Achievements of the People’s Economy’ ( VDNKh) in Moscow, from its inception in 1956 to its closing in 1989. The analytical goal is to unpack the kind of social order that was implicit in the way visitors to the pavilion were envisioned. The paper proposes that the pavilion’s exhibitions on nuclear energy, staged as pi…
Organizational Culture and Professional Identities in the Soviet Nuclear Power Industry
This essay describes the evolution and interaction of powerful constituencies within the Soviet nuclear energy community since the late 1950s. It elucidates the historical origins of the alleged distinction between nuclear specialists (atomshchiki) and power engineers (energetiki) and explores why there was not more disagreement with and resistance to state authorities. The emerging civilian nuclear industry faced the dual legacy of the atomic bo…
Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex (review)
Democratic Deficits in Europe: The Overlooked Exclusiveness of Nation‐States and the Positive Role of the European Union
With the help of the Immigrant Inclusion Index (IMIX), a quantitative tool for measuring the electoral inclusion of immigrants, we demonstrate that European democracies are much more exclusive than they should be. All normative theories of democracy share the conviction that it is imperative that democracies include long‐term immigrant residents into the demos – either by granting citizenship or by introducing alien voting rights. But even the 20…
A new “nuclear normalcy”
This article focuses on a part of the “nuclear condition” that is often overlooked in philosophical discussions: that of materiality. Connecting the spheres of nuclear weapons (and associated security threats), and of nuclear power generation (and associated safety concerns), are the materials that bombs and electricity can be made of, and the machines that produce either enriched uranium or plutonium. We now have evidence of just how fragile the…
Non-universal suffrage: Measuring electoral inclusion in contemporary democracies
The electoral franchise has become more universal as restrictions based on criteria such as sex or property have been lifted throughout the process of democratisation. Yet, a broad range of exclusions has persisted to this date, making the suffrage non-universal, even in established democracies. In this article, we present ELECLAW, a new set of indicators that captures the subtle and variegated legal landscape of persisting electoral rights restr…
The Age of Hiroshima
The architecture of national boundary regimes: Mapping immigration and citizenship policies in 23 democracies 1980–2010
In this article, I introduce a typology that maps the regulation of two fundamental boundaries of modern nation-states regarding immigration: territorial boundaries and membership boundaries. Based on a theory of the structural logics underlying Immigration Regime Openness (IRO) and Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness (CRI), I make four observations on the two-dimensional policy space determined by the relative porousness of these two boundaries. Fi…
Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries
Elaborating a popular assumption about the effects of immigration policies on the integration of migrants, we argue in this article that more restrictive immigration policies lead to the selection of immigrants with greater integration potential, and that this selection should foster migrant integration. To test this argument, we combine country-level data from the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database with individual-level data on …
Chernobyl the TV Series: On Suspending the Truth or What's the Benefit of Lies
HBO's 2019 miniseries Chernobyl has catapulted the world's worst nuclear disaster back into public awareness with stunning cinematography and captivating dramaturgy. For historians of technology, however, its portrayal of Soviet reactor technology, as well as its baffling omission of the disaster mitigation's most successful feat-the construction of a gigantic concrete entombment-present challenges beyond simple claims to authenticity. Are histor…
Stagnated Liberalization, Long‐term Convergence, and Index Methodology: Three Lessons from the Citrix Citizenship Policy Dataset
In this article, I present the second version of the Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index (CITRIX 2.0). It measures the inclusiveness of regulations for immigrants’ access to citizenship across 23 OECD countries from 1980 to 2019, zooming in on four essential policy components: conditions regarding (1) birthright; (2) residence; (3) renunciation; and (4) integration. While explaining the construction of the dataset, I advance a synthetic approa…
"Worst Cases" Reimagined in a Post-Covid Context
We argue that the post-Fukushima nuclear safety debates in the United States and Europe fundamentally altered the definition of nuclear safety. In the United States, the industry effectively took control by strengthening technical measures as the solution to nuclear safety concerns. In France, technical solutions were part of the process, but they were less dominant than in the United States and were overshadowed by larger organizational shuffles…
Enfranchisement regimes beyond de-territorialization and post-nationalism: Definitions, Implications, and Public Support for Different Electorates
This article starts from the premise that those who debate and study the expansion of demoi/electorates – from practitioners to empirical scholars and normative theorists – should consider more seriously that migrants are always immigrants and emigrants at the same time. Doing so implies, first, that states can regulate their electorates through four distinct "enfranchisement regimes" in times of transnational mobility: (1) national, (2) territor…
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies h…
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