Tobias Heinrich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 145280 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tobias Heinrich |
| PRENOMES | Tobias |
| SOBRENOME | Heinrich |
| ASSINATURA | HEINRICH T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5065-3881 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 385 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Assessing WHO’s influence
During a novel pandemic, significant uncertainty drives individuals to seek expert guidance on preventive measures such as vaccination. Yet, it remains poorly understood how people process information in a highly complex landscape of global health governance where multiple experts may offer competing, repetitive, or contradictory advice. This study investigates the influence of World Health Organization (WHO)’s endorsements of vaccines amidst thi…
Deserving Government Assistance? Public Support for Aid to Struggling Firms and Workers
Self-interest and preferences for the regulation of artificial intelligence
Workers have often advocated for regulation to protect themselves from labor market threats. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform many jobs in the coming years, especially those of white collar professionals. Yet we know little about the attitudes these and other workers hold or may develop toward the regulation of such technology. We argue that both self-interested and sociotropic concerns likely shape AI regulatory attitudes, a…
No Entry in a Pandemic
Effective response to and rapid and reliable detection of infectious disease outbreaks require successful coordination of countries’ border policies early on. As threats from diseases are highly salient to the public, researchers agree that a better understanding of domestic politics is crucial. This article investigates a key piece of this question: public demands for border closures. Our experiments in the United Kingdom and the United States s…
Which foreign vaccine should the government purchase in a pandemic? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United States
Our study advances previous work on vaccine country-of-origin effects by assessing its impact on policy preferences for procuring initial vaccines from overseas (as opposed to uptake intentions), identifying a mechanism by which vaccine favoritism occurs, and documenting that neither personal disease susceptibility nor vaccine quality fully mitigates country of origin effects. We conclude by discussing why the study of "vaccine diplomacy" ought t…
Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Metabiography
Love's Labour's Regained
Love's Labour's RegainedThe Year in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland Tobias Heinrich (bio) The Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann and the Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch are generally regarded as one of the greatest but also one of the most mysterious couples of German literature, and not only because at the time of their relationship (1958–1962) both were among the most eminent writers in the German language. While Frisch had published tw…
Evaluating explanations for poverty selectivity in foreign aid
Ending global poverty has been at the forefront of the development agenda since the 1970s, but many donors have failed to target their funds toward this goal. Activists have tackled this issue by appealing to donors’ humanitarian motives, but we know little about what explains donors’ decisions on how much to give to the poorest countries. This paper develops the donor motivation and foreign policy approaches and identify donors’ development moti…
Public support for assistance for workers displaced by technology
Technology is expected to displace many workers in the future. The public generally supports government assistance for workers viewed as less responsible for their unemployment; thus, we ask whether individuals who lose their jobs to technology are perceived as less at fault and more deserving of government benefits, compared to those who lose their jobs to other workers. We conducted a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample in t…
The Missing Fingerprints
There is optimism that the growing number of women in political office will reorient the focus of international politics toward more social and humanitarian issues. One basis for this optimism is the argument that women legislators hold distinct foreign policy preferences and act on them to affect changes in policy. However, we know little about gender differences in the behavior of individual legislators on these issues. This study investigates …
Technology Threats to Employment, Issues, and Candidate and Party Preferences in the United States
Research indicates that susceptibility to having one’s job replaced by technology is associated with candidate and party preferences in affluent democracies, but there is little understanding of why. We investigate whether workers exposed to technology are more supportive of candidates and parties that prioritize the economy, unemployment, and welfare state programs, currently or with historical reputations for doing so. In the United States whic…
Investigating how historical legacies of militarized violence can motivate Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
Populism and foreign aid
Pundits, development practitioners, and scholars worry that rising populism and international disengagement in developed countries have negative consequences on foreign aid. However, how populism and foreign aid go together is not well understood. This paper provides the first systematic examination of this relationship. We adopt the popular ideational definition of populism, unpack populism into its core “thin” elements, and examine them within …
Vaccine hesitancy, state bias, and Covid-19
Technology-Induced Job Loss and the Prioritization of Economic Problems in the Mass Public
Observers argue that robots and other advanced technology will eliminate millions of jobs across affluent democracies in the coming decades. But do citizens in affluent democracies recognize this, and if so, does it affect how salient they find economic problems compared to other problems the governments might address? Using a unique Eurobarometer survey with an extensive set of questions about technology we investigate the extent of sociotropic …
Complicit Filmmakers, Self-Made Women, and the Weltgeist on Horseback
Complicit Filmmakers, Self-Made Women, and the Weltgeist on HorsebackThe Year in Germany Tobias Heinrich (bio) In two books appearing on the 250th birthday of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), the world takes a prominent place. In Hegels Welt, Jürgen Kaube, editor-at-large of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in this role responsible for one of Germany's most influential feuilletons, takes advantage of the ambiguity of the German g…
Public support for development aid during the Covid-19 pandemic
Foreign Policy as Pork-barrel Spending
Foreign policy often creates geographically concentrated domestic benefits. A prominent example is the tying of development aid to purchases from the donor country. This feature of aid highlights the utility in examining foreign policy as an instance of pork-barrel politics. Considering tied aid in terms of legislators’ incentives to provide constituent benefits, we argue that people will support an increase in foreign aid spending more when it w…
How Do People Evaluate Foreign Aid To ‘Nasty’ Regimes
Recent theories of foreign aid assume that moral motives drive voters’ preferences about foreign aid. However, little is known about how moral concerns interact with the widely accepted instrumental goals that aid serves. Moreover, what effects does this interplay have on preferences over policy actions? This article assesses these questions using a survey experiment in which respondents evaluate foreign aid policies toward nasty recipient regime…
De/Constructing Friedrich Hölderlin
Hegel.On the occasion of Hlderlin's 250 th birthday, the German publishing house Hanser has put out two books on the poet's life and his legacy that couldn't be more different from
Foreign policy begins at home
Citizens hold opinions about what kinds of foreign policy their government should pursue. Because foreign policy often has geographically specific domestic consequences, we expect opinions to vary with the locality of its impact. In this article, we examine whether individual support for US foreign policy to promote democracy abroad depends on exactly where the policy’s domestic impact will occur. We expect individuals to favor policies that best…
Colonial Legacy and Foreign Aid
It is well-known that donors give considerably more foreign aid to former colonies than to countries lacking past colonial ties. Unfortunately, we know relatively little about why this is the case. For one, there is almost never a theoretical justification for the inclusion of colonial history in statistical models. For the other, the only explicitly made rationale by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2009) actually predicts an interpretational proble…
Democracy Aid and Electoral Accountability
Although foreign policies often fail to successfully promote democracy, over a decade of empirical research indicates that foreign aid specifically for democracy promotion is remarkably successful at improving the survival and institutional strength of fragile democracies. However, these measures cannot tell us how well democracy aid supports the central promise of democracy: accountable government. Since institutions can be subverted in various …
Afrika /Africa
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
Determinants of Sanctions Effectiveness
In the literature on sanctions effectiveness, scholars have identified a number of factors that may contribute to sanctions success. However, existing empirical studies provide mixed findings concerning the effects of these factors. This research note explores two possible reasons for this lack of consistency in the literature. First, informed by the recent theories that suggest threats are an important part of sanctions episodes, we analyze both…
When is Foreign Aid Selfish, When is it Selfless
The research on foreign aid has long struggled to determine whether giving aid is a selfish or a selfless policy by donors. Instead of looking for evidence for one over the other, I propose examining under which circumstances aid is driven by selfish or selfless motives. A formal model allows for both motives to affect the donor leader's decision to grant foreign aid: it can buy a policy concession from the recipient, and it can also signal to th…
Voters Get What They Want (When They Pay Attention)
How do the human rights practices abroad affect decisions about the allocation of foreign aid? This article provides a new approach to this long-standing question. We bring donor government, donor citizens, and recipients' attributes together in a single analytical framework. We argue that donor citizens are more self-serving than previously assumed; they do not wholeheartedly support their government punishing human rights abusers when those sta…
Public Opinion and Foreign Aid Cuts in Economic Crises
How Do People Evaluate Foreign Aid To ‘Nasty’ Regimes
Recent theories of foreign aid assume that moral motives drive voters’ preferences about foreign aid. However, little is known about how moral concerns interact with the widely accepted instrumental goals that aid serves. Moreover, what effects does this interplay have on preferences over policy actions? This article assesses these questions using a survey experiment in which respondents evaluate foreign aid policies toward nasty recipient regime…
Sanction Consequences and Citizen Support
Recent research disputes the conventional wisdom that “sanctions do not work.” It demonstrates that states may impose sanctions for purposes beyond seeking an immediate change in the behavior of targeted regimes. For example, democratic leaders often impose sanctions to satisfy their own domestic constituencies. However, we know little about how the consequences of sanctions shape whether or not citizens favor them. Building on insights from prio…
Democracy Aid and Electoral Accountability
Although foreign policies often fail to successfully promote democracy, over a decade of empirical research indicates that foreign aid specifically for democracy promotion is remarkably successful at improving the survival and institutional strength of fragile democracies. However, these measures cannot tell us how well democracy aid supports the central promise of democracy: accountable government. Since institutions can be subverted in various …
Populism and foreign aid
Pundits, development practitioners, and scholars worry that rising populism and international disengagement in developed countries have negative consequences on foreign aid. However, how populism and foreign aid go together is not well understood. This paper provides the first systematic examination of this relationship. We adopt the popular ideational definition of populism, unpack populism into its core “thin” elements, and examine them within …
Public support for development aid during the Covid-19 pandemic
Foreign Policy as Pork-barrel Spending
Foreign policy often creates geographically concentrated domestic benefits. A prominent example is the tying of development aid to purchases from the donor country. This feature of aid highlights the utility in examining foreign policy as an instance of pork-barrel politics. Considering tied aid in terms of legislators’ incentives to provide constituent benefits, we argue that people will support an increase in foreign aid spending more when it w…
Colonial Legacy and Foreign Aid
It is well-known that donors give considerably more foreign aid to former colonies than to countries lacking past colonial ties. Unfortunately, we know relatively little about why this is the case. For one, there is almost never a theoretical justification for the inclusion of colonial history in statistical models. For the other, the only explicitly made rationale by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2009) actually predicts an interpretational proble…
Foreign policy begins at home
Citizens hold opinions about what kinds of foreign policy their government should pursue. Because foreign policy often has geographically specific domestic consequences, we expect opinions to vary with the locality of its impact. In this article, we examine whether individual support for US foreign policy to promote democracy abroad depends on exactly where the policy’s domestic impact will occur. We expect individuals to favor policies that best…
Technology Threats to Employment, Issues, and Candidate and Party Preferences in the United States
Research indicates that susceptibility to having one’s job replaced by technology is associated with candidate and party preferences in affluent democracies, but there is little understanding of why. We investigate whether workers exposed to technology are more supportive of candidates and parties that prioritize the economy, unemployment, and welfare state programs, currently or with historical reputations for doing so. In the United States whic…
No Entry in a Pandemic
Effective response to and rapid and reliable detection of infectious disease outbreaks require successful coordination of countries’ border policies early on. As threats from diseases are highly salient to the public, researchers agree that a better understanding of domestic politics is crucial. This article investigates a key piece of this question: public demands for border closures. Our experiments in the United Kingdom and the United States s…
Investigating how historical legacies of militarized violence can motivate Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy, state bias, and Covid-19
Self-interest and preferences for the regulation of artificial intelligence
Workers have often advocated for regulation to protect themselves from labor market threats. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform many jobs in the coming years, especially those of white collar professionals. Yet we know little about the attitudes these and other workers hold or may develop toward the regulation of such technology. We argue that both self-interested and sociotropic concerns likely shape AI regulatory attitudes, a…
Public support for assistance for workers displaced by technology
Technology is expected to displace many workers in the future. The public generally supports government assistance for workers viewed as less responsible for their unemployment; thus, we ask whether individuals who lose their jobs to technology are perceived as less at fault and more deserving of government benefits, compared to those who lose their jobs to other workers. We conducted a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample in t…
Technology-Induced Job Loss and the Prioritization of Economic Problems in the Mass Public
Observers argue that robots and other advanced technology will eliminate millions of jobs across affluent democracies in the coming decades. But do citizens in affluent democracies recognize this, and if so, does it affect how salient they find economic problems compared to other problems the governments might address? Using a unique Eurobarometer survey with an extensive set of questions about technology we investigate the extent of sociotropic …
Does counterterrorism militarize foreign aid? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
This article studies whether the pursuit of counterterrorism militarizes foreign aid flows. It focuses on the case of US foreign aid to sub-Saharan African states, which recently have experienced an increase in the presence of al-Qaeda or its affiliate terrorist organizations. This article argues that as terrorist groups carry out attacks inside a state's territory, aid towards that state will serve such counterterrorism goals. For one, the state…
Which foreign vaccine should the government purchase in a pandemic? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United States
Our study advances previous work on vaccine country-of-origin effects by assessing its impact on policy preferences for procuring initial vaccines from overseas (as opposed to uptake intentions), identifying a mechanism by which vaccine favoritism occurs, and documenting that neither personal disease susceptibility nor vaccine quality fully mitigates country of origin effects. We conclude by discussing why the study of "vaccine diplomacy" ought t…
The Missing Fingerprints
There is optimism that the growing number of women in political office will reorient the focus of international politics toward more social and humanitarian issues. One basis for this optimism is the argument that women legislators hold distinct foreign policy preferences and act on them to affect changes in policy. However, we know little about gender differences in the behavior of individual legislators on these issues. This study investigates …
Afrika /Africa
The Placing of Displaced Lives
This Forum is concerned with refugee life writing.It explores the discourses that shape public perception of forced migration and sheds light on the intricate relationship between the collective fate of refugees and the uniqueness of each life lived in transit
Determinants of Sanctions Effectiveness
In the literature on sanctions effectiveness, scholars have identified a number of factors that may contribute to sanctions success. However, existing empirical studies provide mixed findings concerning the effects of these factors. This research note explores two possible reasons for this lack of consistency in the literature. First, informed by the recent theories that suggest threats are an important part of sanctions episodes, we analyze both…
Reciprocity and the structural determinants of the international sanctions network
When is Foreign Aid Selfish, When is it Selfless
The research on foreign aid has long struggled to determine whether giving aid is a selfish or a selfless policy by donors. Instead of looking for evidence for one over the other, I propose examining under which circumstances aid is driven by selfish or selfless motives. A formal model allows for both motives to affect the donor leader's decision to grant foreign aid: it can buy a policy concession from the recipient, and it can also signal to th…
Public Opinion and Foreign Aid Cuts in Economic Crises
Sanction Consequences and Citizen Support
Recent research disputes the conventional wisdom that “sanctions do not work.” It demonstrates that states may impose sanctions for purposes beyond seeking an immediate change in the behavior of targeted regimes. For example, democratic leaders often impose sanctions to satisfy their own domestic constituencies. However, we know little about how the consequences of sanctions shape whether or not citizens favor them. Building on insights from prio…
The Placing of Displaced Lives
This Forum is concerned with refugee life writing.It explores the discourses that shape public perception of forced migration and sheds light on the intricate relationship between the collective fate of refugees and the uniqueness of each life lived in transit
Does counterterrorism militarize foreign aid? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
This article studies whether the pursuit of counterterrorism militarizes foreign aid flows. It focuses on the case of US foreign aid to sub-Saharan African states, which recently have experienced an increase in the presence of al-Qaeda or its affiliate terrorist organizations. This article argues that as terrorist groups carry out attacks inside a state's territory, aid towards that state will serve such counterterrorism goals. For one, the state…
Voters Get What They Want (When They Pay Attention)
How do the human rights practices abroad affect decisions about the allocation of foreign aid? This article provides a new approach to this long-standing question. We bring donor government, donor citizens, and recipients' attributes together in a single analytical framework. We argue that donor citizens are more self-serving than previously assumed; they do not wholeheartedly support their government punishing human rights abusers when those sta…
Foreign policy begins at home
Citizens hold opinions about what kinds of foreign policy their government should pursue. Because foreign policy often has geographically specific domestic consequences, we expect opinions to vary with the locality of its impact. In this article, we examine whether individual support for US foreign policy to promote democracy abroad depends on exactly where the policy’s domestic impact will occur. We expect individuals to favor policies that best…
Colonial Legacy and Foreign Aid
It is well-known that donors give considerably more foreign aid to former colonies than to countries lacking past colonial ties. Unfortunately, we know relatively little about why this is the case. For one, there is almost never a theoretical justification for the inclusion of colonial history in statistical models. For the other, the only explicitly made rationale by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2009) actually predicts an interpretational proble…
Democracy Aid and Electoral Accountability
Although foreign policies often fail to successfully promote democracy, over a decade of empirical research indicates that foreign aid specifically for democracy promotion is remarkably successful at improving the survival and institutional strength of fragile democracies. However, these measures cannot tell us how well democracy aid supports the central promise of democracy: accountable government. Since institutions can be subverted in various …
Afrika /Africa
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
The Tercentenary of Maria Theresa (1717-1780)
The Tercentenary of Maria Theresa (1717–1780)The Year in Austria and Germany Tobias Heinrich (bio) Maria Theresa, ruler of the Habsburg Empire from 1740 until her death in 1780, was a remarkable historical character in many respects. She was the first female sovereign of a multicultural and multilingual dominion that stretched from Belgium all the way to Transylvania and Galicia in modern-day Romania and Ukraine. Her life saw the beginning transi…
Public support for development aid during the Covid-19 pandemic
Foreign Policy as Pork-barrel Spending
Foreign policy often creates geographically concentrated domestic benefits. A prominent example is the tying of development aid to purchases from the donor country. This feature of aid highlights the utility in examining foreign policy as an instance of pork-barrel politics. Considering tied aid in terms of legislators’ incentives to provide constituent benefits, we argue that people will support an increase in foreign aid spending more when it w…
How Do People Evaluate Foreign Aid To ‘Nasty’ Regimes
Recent theories of foreign aid assume that moral motives drive voters’ preferences about foreign aid. However, little is known about how moral concerns interact with the widely accepted instrumental goals that aid serves. Moreover, what effects does this interplay have on preferences over policy actions? This article assesses these questions using a survey experiment in which respondents evaluate foreign aid policies toward nasty recipient regime…
De/Constructing Friedrich Hölderlin
Hegel.On the occasion of Hlderlin's 250 th birthday, the German publishing house Hanser has put out two books on the poet's life and his legacy that couldn't be more different from
Populism and foreign aid
Pundits, development practitioners, and scholars worry that rising populism and international disengagement in developed countries have negative consequences on foreign aid. However, how populism and foreign aid go together is not well understood. This paper provides the first systematic examination of this relationship. We adopt the popular ideational definition of populism, unpack populism into its core “thin” elements, and examine them within …
Vaccine hesitancy, state bias, and Covid-19
Technology-Induced Job Loss and the Prioritization of Economic Problems in the Mass Public
Observers argue that robots and other advanced technology will eliminate millions of jobs across affluent democracies in the coming decades. But do citizens in affluent democracies recognize this, and if so, does it affect how salient they find economic problems compared to other problems the governments might address? Using a unique Eurobarometer survey with an extensive set of questions about technology we investigate the extent of sociotropic …
Complicit Filmmakers, Self-Made Women, and the Weltgeist on Horseback
Complicit Filmmakers, Self-Made Women, and the Weltgeist on HorsebackThe Year in Germany Tobias Heinrich (bio) In two books appearing on the 250th birthday of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), the world takes a prominent place. In Hegels Welt, Jürgen Kaube, editor-at-large of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in this role responsible for one of Germany's most influential feuilletons, takes advantage of the ambiguity of the German g…
Evaluating explanations for poverty selectivity in foreign aid
Ending global poverty has been at the forefront of the development agenda since the 1970s, but many donors have failed to target their funds toward this goal. Activists have tackled this issue by appealing to donors’ humanitarian motives, but we know little about what explains donors’ decisions on how much to give to the poorest countries. This paper develops the donor motivation and foreign policy approaches and identify donors’ development moti…
Public support for assistance for workers displaced by technology
Technology is expected to displace many workers in the future. The public generally supports government assistance for workers viewed as less responsible for their unemployment; thus, we ask whether individuals who lose their jobs to technology are perceived as less at fault and more deserving of government benefits, compared to those who lose their jobs to other workers. We conducted a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample in t…
The Missing Fingerprints
There is optimism that the growing number of women in political office will reorient the focus of international politics toward more social and humanitarian issues. One basis for this optimism is the argument that women legislators hold distinct foreign policy preferences and act on them to affect changes in policy. However, we know little about gender differences in the behavior of individual legislators on these issues. This study investigates …
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