Ann-Kathrin Reinl
Biographic Data
| ID | 271964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann-Kathrin Reinl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann-Kathrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Reinl |
| SIGNATURE | REINL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3780-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Change against the odds
Published online: 16 January 2026
From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance
Recent transnational challenges have spurred calls for an enhanced European Union (EU) social agenda. However, citizens in countries with strong welfare systems fear that increased EU involvement could trigger a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ in benefits. This article examines whether these concerns can be mitigated by guaranteeing existing welfare standards. Using a vignette experiment in Belgium, the analysis explores public preferences for welfare gover…
United in Difficult Times? Investigating Party Communication on EU Solidarity
The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign
Party competition on European issues in the 2024 EP elections
Recent developments have turned European integration from a “sleeping giant” into an active political issue. The Maastricht Treaty politicized Europe in national and European Parliament elections. Cross-border crises, like migration and environmental challenges, have further increased the importance of coordinated EU responses. Moreover, an entirely new family of Eurosceptic parties has emerged and consolidated over the past decade. Given that on…
Crossing the border
The Russian invasion at the beginning of 2022 forced many Ukrainians to find refuge in safer places. Using unique survey data collected in the early days of the war, this research note turns to Ukrainian refugees’ opinions in two host countries: Germany and Poland. We are interested in how this–otherwise hard-to-reach und so far understudied–group of people evaluated their country’s potential European Union (EU) accession at that very specific mo…
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections
Seminal works have highlighted a growing polarisation regarding the environment, with supporters advocating for immediate emissions reduction and others downplaying or even denying human-caused climate change. Despite this debate, little attention has been focused on how voters’ environmental preferences influence their electoral behaviour. Using the metaphor of the ‘sleeping giant’ from European Union politics literature, the article empirically…
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity
As with previous crises, EU-wide risk-sharing has also been demanded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, this crisis did not unfold in a political vacuum. Instead, public backing for EU-wide risk-sharing might have been informed by past crises experiences. Building on the idea of experienced reciprocal risk-sharing, we assume that the willingness to share risks is greater when a crisis-ridden country has also shown solidarity before, whereas readi…
Divided by borders, united in healthcare? Regional heterogeneities and technocratic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
It is not only the states of the European Union (EU) that are heterogeneous in many respects, but also the regions existing within them. In this paper, we make use of a conjoint experiment on a particular type of technocratic solidarity - joint procurement of medical countermeasures (JPMC) - to explore how old and new regional-level heterogeneities affect public support for such type of solidarity. To this end, we exploit an experimental dataset,…
Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme
Previous explanations regarding transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU) have mainly focussed on factors including left–right self‐placement, support for European integration and European identity. We expand this model by considering deeper psychological determinants of transnational solidarity: values, operationalised as Schwartz's basic human values of universalism and security. We expect them to exert (1) direct effects on transnati…
All for One, and One for All? Analysing Party Positions on EU Solidarity in Germany in Challenging Times
This article analyses party positions on European Union (EU) solidarity in Germany in the run-up to the 2021 German federal elections. While previous studies have investigated whether and under which conditions individuals support or reject different types of EU solidarity, little is known about how political parties position themselves on the issue. The study draws on an original expert survey on German party positions, including various items o…
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience
The Covid-19 pandemic placed responsibility on the European Union (EU) to effectively mitigate this common challenge. An important aspect of the common fight against the virus was the collective procurement of vaccines. The initially slow process of vaccine delivery may have caused overall frustration within societies and may also have had a profound effect on people’s assessment of their country’s EU membership. This paper examines this assumpti…
Arising calls for national sovereignty in times of European crises and the political Zeitenwende
The recent periods of multiple crises go hand in hand with calls for more national sovereignty. Drawing on data provided by the Manifesto Project, this contribution seeks to study empirically how widespread the wish to ‘take back control’ is reflected through political parties all over Europe. We show that although ‘sovereignist’ issues across EU member states were not among the political top priorities in the past, parties’ issue emphasis has in…
Regional inequalities and transnational solidarity in the European Union
Amid the eurocrisis, scholars and policy makers sought to establish an EU-wide layer of social policy, aiming to ensure common standards through the EU and to provide a degree of common social protection. While public support for European social policy has been extensively studied, we don't know how regional (i.e., subnational) inequalities relate to preferences for European social policy. We analyse the effect of regional differences in socio-ec…
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times
Although polarisation risks breaking up the European family, such conflicts paired with transnational challenges can also raise awareness of the need for more European Union (EU) cohesion. In order to approach the hitherto underspecified concept, this article connects the recent literature on social cohesion with research on various facets of public EU support – integration preferences, identity, voting behaviour, and solidarity. Building on surv…
Not so far east? The impact of Central-Eastern European imports on the Brexit referendum
We explore the effect of the UK’s economic links with Central-Eastern Europe and China in the case of the Brexit referendum. First, replicate and independently verify the Colantone and Stanig findings (2018a) on the effect of globalization on Brexit. Then, we extend their original analysis and demonstrate that although both Chinese and Central-Eastern European imports were significant causal determinants of the referendum’s outcome, exposure to C…
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises
After more than a decade of consecutive crises, the issue of transnational solidarity is becoming increasingly relevant for the European Union. This research note compares the current coronavirus disease-2019 crisis to previous ones and investigates the willingness of European Union citizens to show solidarity towards fellow member states. We test the influence of socio-political attitudes of citizens on solidarity preferences in three crisis sce…
Transnational Solidarity Within the EU
This paper aims to discover underlying, as yet theoretically and empirically unexplored, distinctions in citizens' views of transnational solidarity within the European Union (EU). Building on literature regarding national welfare states, the paper presents an original concept of transnational solidarity consisting of two latent, not directly measurable, dimensions: first, citizens' preferences for risk-sharing among EU states and, second, their …
The Brexit learning effect? Brexit negotiations and attitudes towards leaving the EU beyond the UK
Britain’s decision to leave the EU did not go unnoticed by the remaining EU states. Previous studies have shown that the assessment of the Brexit decision shortly after the referendum took place influenced the voting behaviour of citizens in a hypothetical EU referendum held in their country. This research note goes one step further by examining whether citizens’ willingness to leave the EU changed during the following three years of prolonged Br…
Public support for the European solidarity deal in EU debtor states
This paper defines the solution to the European Sovereign Debt Crisis as a European solidarity deal and analyzes it from the perspective of citizens in an EU debtor state. To be more precise, we test the conditions under which citizens living in an indebted state support their country’s part of the solidarity deal, namely the introduction of austerity measures to overcome the crisis. Using Greece in the peak of its drama as a case in point, we fi…
How the 2017 Federal Election in Germany Affected Satisfaction with Democracy among AfD Voters
Dissatisfaction with democracy is among the central determinants of voting for a populist radical right party, such as the German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). At the same time, elections have been shown to increase political satisfaction, especially when voters see themselves as winners of the election. In this article, we ask, first, whether voters of the AfD have partly been reconciled with democracy during the 2017 federal election in Ge…
Transnational solidarity among political elites
As a consequence of the European Economic Crisis, the European Union (EU) has implanted mechanisms to assist fellow member states facing economic difficulties. Despite an increasing academic interest in public preferences for such intra-EU solidarity measures, research has so far largely ignored individual characteristics that could possibly influence politicians’ views. In this paper, we look at politicians’ preferences for transnational solidar…
Populists in Government
Populist parties in government show high levels of resilience despite their policy failures. The inevitable reality check and the failure of populist parties to implement their proposed policies do not seem to harm them electorally. Using crisis-driven Greece as an example, we use data from the period shortly after the September 2015 election. We find that voter defection more often happens when voters do not believe their party fought for them a…
A tale of two crises? A regional-level investigation of the joint effect of economic performance and migration on the voting for European disintegration
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises
After more than a decade of consecutive crises, the issue of transnational solidarity is becoming increasingly relevant for the European Union. This research note compares the current coronavirus disease-2019 crisis to previous ones and investigates the willingness of European Union citizens to show solidarity towards fellow member states. We test the influence of socio-political attitudes of citizens on solidarity preferences in three crisis sce…
A tale of two crises? A regional-level investigation of the joint effect of economic performance and migration on the voting for European disintegration
Transnational Solidarity Within the EU
This paper aims to discover underlying, as yet theoretically and empirically unexplored, distinctions in citizens' views of transnational solidarity within the European Union (EU). Building on literature regarding national welfare states, the paper presents an original concept of transnational solidarity consisting of two latent, not directly measurable, dimensions: first, citizens' preferences for risk-sharing among EU states and, second, their …
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times
Although polarisation risks breaking up the European family, such conflicts paired with transnational challenges can also raise awareness of the need for more European Union (EU) cohesion. In order to approach the hitherto underspecified concept, this article connects the recent literature on social cohesion with research on various facets of public EU support – integration preferences, identity, voting behaviour, and solidarity. Building on surv…
Not so far east? The impact of Central-Eastern European imports on the Brexit referendum
We explore the effect of the UK’s economic links with Central-Eastern Europe and China in the case of the Brexit referendum. First, replicate and independently verify the Colantone and Stanig findings (2018a) on the effect of globalization on Brexit. Then, we extend their original analysis and demonstrate that although both Chinese and Central-Eastern European imports were significant causal determinants of the referendum’s outcome, exposure to C…
How the 2017 Federal Election in Germany Affected Satisfaction with Democracy among AfD Voters
Dissatisfaction with democracy is among the central determinants of voting for a populist radical right party, such as the German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). At the same time, elections have been shown to increase political satisfaction, especially when voters see themselves as winners of the election. In this article, we ask, first, whether voters of the AfD have partly been reconciled with democracy during the 2017 federal election in Ge…
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections
Seminal works have highlighted a growing polarisation regarding the environment, with supporters advocating for immediate emissions reduction and others downplaying or even denying human-caused climate change. Despite this debate, little attention has been focused on how voters’ environmental preferences influence their electoral behaviour. Using the metaphor of the ‘sleeping giant’ from European Union politics literature, the article empirically…
Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme
Previous explanations regarding transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU) have mainly focussed on factors including left–right self‐placement, support for European integration and European identity. We expand this model by considering deeper psychological determinants of transnational solidarity: values, operationalised as Schwartz's basic human values of universalism and security. We expect them to exert (1) direct effects on transnati…
Populists in Government
Populist parties in government show high levels of resilience despite their policy failures. The inevitable reality check and the failure of populist parties to implement their proposed policies do not seem to harm them electorally. Using crisis-driven Greece as an example, we use data from the period shortly after the September 2015 election. We find that voter defection more often happens when voters do not believe their party fought for them a…
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity
As with previous crises, EU-wide risk-sharing has also been demanded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, this crisis did not unfold in a political vacuum. Instead, public backing for EU-wide risk-sharing might have been informed by past crises experiences. Building on the idea of experienced reciprocal risk-sharing, we assume that the willingness to share risks is greater when a crisis-ridden country has also shown solidarity before, whereas readi…
Transnational solidarity among political elites
As a consequence of the European Economic Crisis, the European Union (EU) has implanted mechanisms to assist fellow member states facing economic difficulties. Despite an increasing academic interest in public preferences for such intra-EU solidarity measures, research has so far largely ignored individual characteristics that could possibly influence politicians’ views. In this paper, we look at politicians’ preferences for transnational solidar…
Divided by borders, united in healthcare? Regional heterogeneities and technocratic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
It is not only the states of the European Union (EU) that are heterogeneous in many respects, but also the regions existing within them. In this paper, we make use of a conjoint experiment on a particular type of technocratic solidarity - joint procurement of medical countermeasures (JPMC) - to explore how old and new regional-level heterogeneities affect public support for such type of solidarity. To this end, we exploit an experimental dataset,…
All for One, and One for All? Analysing Party Positions on EU Solidarity in Germany in Challenging Times
This article analyses party positions on European Union (EU) solidarity in Germany in the run-up to the 2021 German federal elections. While previous studies have investigated whether and under which conditions individuals support or reject different types of EU solidarity, little is known about how political parties position themselves on the issue. The study draws on an original expert survey on German party positions, including various items o…
The Brexit learning effect? Brexit negotiations and attitudes towards leaving the EU beyond the UK
Britain’s decision to leave the EU did not go unnoticed by the remaining EU states. Previous studies have shown that the assessment of the Brexit decision shortly after the referendum took place influenced the voting behaviour of citizens in a hypothetical EU referendum held in their country. This research note goes one step further by examining whether citizens’ willingness to leave the EU changed during the following three years of prolonged Br…
Public support for the European solidarity deal in EU debtor states
This paper defines the solution to the European Sovereign Debt Crisis as a European solidarity deal and analyzes it from the perspective of citizens in an EU debtor state. To be more precise, we test the conditions under which citizens living in an indebted state support their country’s part of the solidarity deal, namely the introduction of austerity measures to overcome the crisis. Using Greece in the peak of its drama as a case in point, we fi…
Regional inequalities and transnational solidarity in the European Union
Amid the eurocrisis, scholars and policy makers sought to establish an EU-wide layer of social policy, aiming to ensure common standards through the EU and to provide a degree of common social protection. While public support for European social policy has been extensively studied, we don't know how regional (i.e., subnational) inequalities relate to preferences for European social policy. We analyse the effect of regional differences in socio-ec…
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience
The Covid-19 pandemic placed responsibility on the European Union (EU) to effectively mitigate this common challenge. An important aspect of the common fight against the virus was the collective procurement of vaccines. The initially slow process of vaccine delivery may have caused overall frustration within societies and may also have had a profound effect on people’s assessment of their country’s EU membership. This paper examines this assumpti…
A tale of two crises? A regional-level investigation of the joint effect of economic performance and migration on the voting for European disintegration
Populists in Government
Populist parties in government show high levels of resilience despite their policy failures. The inevitable reality check and the failure of populist parties to implement their proposed policies do not seem to harm them electorally. Using crisis-driven Greece as an example, we use data from the period shortly after the September 2015 election. We find that voter defection more often happens when voters do not believe their party fought for them a…
The Brexit learning effect? Brexit negotiations and attitudes towards leaving the EU beyond the UK
Britain’s decision to leave the EU did not go unnoticed by the remaining EU states. Previous studies have shown that the assessment of the Brexit decision shortly after the referendum took place influenced the voting behaviour of citizens in a hypothetical EU referendum held in their country. This research note goes one step further by examining whether citizens’ willingness to leave the EU changed during the following three years of prolonged Br…
Public support for the European solidarity deal in EU debtor states
This paper defines the solution to the European Sovereign Debt Crisis as a European solidarity deal and analyzes it from the perspective of citizens in an EU debtor state. To be more precise, we test the conditions under which citizens living in an indebted state support their country’s part of the solidarity deal, namely the introduction of austerity measures to overcome the crisis. Using Greece in the peak of its drama as a case in point, we fi…
How the 2017 Federal Election in Germany Affected Satisfaction with Democracy among AfD Voters
Dissatisfaction with democracy is among the central determinants of voting for a populist radical right party, such as the German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). At the same time, elections have been shown to increase political satisfaction, especially when voters see themselves as winners of the election. In this article, we ask, first, whether voters of the AfD have partly been reconciled with democracy during the 2017 federal election in Ge…
Transnational solidarity among political elites
As a consequence of the European Economic Crisis, the European Union (EU) has implanted mechanisms to assist fellow member states facing economic difficulties. Despite an increasing academic interest in public preferences for such intra-EU solidarity measures, research has so far largely ignored individual characteristics that could possibly influence politicians’ views. In this paper, we look at politicians’ preferences for transnational solidar…
Not so far east? The impact of Central-Eastern European imports on the Brexit referendum
We explore the effect of the UK’s economic links with Central-Eastern Europe and China in the case of the Brexit referendum. First, replicate and independently verify the Colantone and Stanig findings (2018a) on the effect of globalization on Brexit. Then, we extend their original analysis and demonstrate that although both Chinese and Central-Eastern European imports were significant causal determinants of the referendum’s outcome, exposure to C…
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises
After more than a decade of consecutive crises, the issue of transnational solidarity is becoming increasingly relevant for the European Union. This research note compares the current coronavirus disease-2019 crisis to previous ones and investigates the willingness of European Union citizens to show solidarity towards fellow member states. We test the influence of socio-political attitudes of citizens on solidarity preferences in three crisis sce…
Transnational Solidarity Within the EU
This paper aims to discover underlying, as yet theoretically and empirically unexplored, distinctions in citizens' views of transnational solidarity within the European Union (EU). Building on literature regarding national welfare states, the paper presents an original concept of transnational solidarity consisting of two latent, not directly measurable, dimensions: first, citizens' preferences for risk-sharing among EU states and, second, their …
Arising calls for national sovereignty in times of European crises and the political Zeitenwende
The recent periods of multiple crises go hand in hand with calls for more national sovereignty. Drawing on data provided by the Manifesto Project, this contribution seeks to study empirically how widespread the wish to ‘take back control’ is reflected through political parties all over Europe. We show that although ‘sovereignist’ issues across EU member states were not among the political top priorities in the past, parties’ issue emphasis has in…
Regional inequalities and transnational solidarity in the European Union
Amid the eurocrisis, scholars and policy makers sought to establish an EU-wide layer of social policy, aiming to ensure common standards through the EU and to provide a degree of common social protection. While public support for European social policy has been extensively studied, we don't know how regional (i.e., subnational) inequalities relate to preferences for European social policy. We analyse the effect of regional differences in socio-ec…
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times
Although polarisation risks breaking up the European family, such conflicts paired with transnational challenges can also raise awareness of the need for more European Union (EU) cohesion. In order to approach the hitherto underspecified concept, this article connects the recent literature on social cohesion with research on various facets of public EU support – integration preferences, identity, voting behaviour, and solidarity. Building on surv…
Crossing the border
The Russian invasion at the beginning of 2022 forced many Ukrainians to find refuge in safer places. Using unique survey data collected in the early days of the war, this research note turns to Ukrainian refugees’ opinions in two host countries: Germany and Poland. We are interested in how this–otherwise hard-to-reach und so far understudied–group of people evaluated their country’s potential European Union (EU) accession at that very specific mo…
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections
Seminal works have highlighted a growing polarisation regarding the environment, with supporters advocating for immediate emissions reduction and others downplaying or even denying human-caused climate change. Despite this debate, little attention has been focused on how voters’ environmental preferences influence their electoral behaviour. Using the metaphor of the ‘sleeping giant’ from European Union politics literature, the article empirically…
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity
As with previous crises, EU-wide risk-sharing has also been demanded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, this crisis did not unfold in a political vacuum. Instead, public backing for EU-wide risk-sharing might have been informed by past crises experiences. Building on the idea of experienced reciprocal risk-sharing, we assume that the willingness to share risks is greater when a crisis-ridden country has also shown solidarity before, whereas readi…
Divided by borders, united in healthcare? Regional heterogeneities and technocratic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
It is not only the states of the European Union (EU) that are heterogeneous in many respects, but also the regions existing within them. In this paper, we make use of a conjoint experiment on a particular type of technocratic solidarity - joint procurement of medical countermeasures (JPMC) - to explore how old and new regional-level heterogeneities affect public support for such type of solidarity. To this end, we exploit an experimental dataset,…
Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme
Previous explanations regarding transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU) have mainly focussed on factors including left–right self‐placement, support for European integration and European identity. We expand this model by considering deeper psychological determinants of transnational solidarity: values, operationalised as Schwartz's basic human values of universalism and security. We expect them to exert (1) direct effects on transnati…
All for One, and One for All? Analysing Party Positions on EU Solidarity in Germany in Challenging Times
This article analyses party positions on European Union (EU) solidarity in Germany in the run-up to the 2021 German federal elections. While previous studies have investigated whether and under which conditions individuals support or reject different types of EU solidarity, little is known about how political parties position themselves on the issue. The study draws on an original expert survey on German party positions, including various items o…
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience
The Covid-19 pandemic placed responsibility on the European Union (EU) to effectively mitigate this common challenge. An important aspect of the common fight against the virus was the collective procurement of vaccines. The initially slow process of vaccine delivery may have caused overall frustration within societies and may also have had a profound effect on people’s assessment of their country’s EU membership. This paper examines this assumpti…
From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance
Recent transnational challenges have spurred calls for an enhanced European Union (EU) social agenda. However, citizens in countries with strong welfare systems fear that increased EU involvement could trigger a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ in benefits. This article examines whether these concerns can be mitigated by guaranteeing existing welfare standards. Using a vignette experiment in Belgium, the analysis explores public preferences for welfare gover…
United in Difficult Times? Investigating Party Communication on EU Solidarity
The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign
Party competition on European issues in the 2024 EP elections
Recent developments have turned European integration from a “sleeping giant” into an active political issue. The Maastricht Treaty politicized Europe in national and European Parliament elections. Cross-border crises, like migration and environmental challenges, have further increased the importance of coordinated EU responses. Moreover, an entirely new family of Eurosceptic parties has emerged and consolidated over the past decade. Given that on…
Change against the odds
Published online: 16 January 2026
Political science (23 works) · Law (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · European union (13 works) · Solidarity (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works)