2018
DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718003262
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A Trump Effect on the EU’s Popularity? The U.S. Presidential Election as a Natural Experiment

Abstract: Did the election of Donald Trump affect the popularity of the European Union (EU) in Europe? Theoretically, both a positive rally effect (due to a perceived external threat) and a negative domino effect (due to resignation among Europhiles and/or reinforcement among europhobe nationalists) are plausible. We treat Trump’s unexpected victory as an external shock and use a Eurobarometer survey that was conducted in all EU-28 member states four days prior to (control group) and six days after the election (treatme… Show more

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“…Because France and the Netherlands are the two countries serving as benchmark, I exclude them to ensure exogeneity. 6 With this strategy, I follow existing regression discontinuity designs from public opinion research (Minkus et al, 2018). Moreover, this ensures that the estimates are restricted to the referendum effects outside the voting population, as the horizontal benchmarking mechanism would suggest.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because France and the Netherlands are the two countries serving as benchmark, I exclude them to ensure exogeneity. 6 With this strategy, I follow existing regression discontinuity designs from public opinion research (Minkus et al, 2018). Moreover, this ensures that the estimates are restricted to the referendum effects outside the voting population, as the horizontal benchmarking mechanism would suggest.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The main methodological challenge of this type of design (e.g. Minkus, Deutschmann, & Delhey, 2019;Slothuus, 2010) is ensuring that respondents interviewed before and after the event are comparable and the difference between treated and controlled could be attributed to the events. Table 1 shows a balancing test for the background characteristics asked about in the survey using a multinomial regression model.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But tools for analyzing social media turned out to be too expensive and not Persian-friendly enough. Google Trends, as it is deployed by many scholars (e.g., Choi and Varian 2012;Mellon 2013;Mellon 2014;Minkus et al 2019) was an alternative for our goal. We searched for the popularity of street slogans on the web, which includes any kind of a text published on the internet (if Google indexes it).…”
Section: Iran Protest In 2017/2018mentioning
confidence: 99%