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Monographs
Busemeyer, Marius R., Julian L. Garritzmann & Erik Neimanns (2020) A loud but noisy signal. Public opinion and education reform in Western Europe. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
Prize for the best book on Education Politics and/or Education Policy in 2020/21, awarded by the Education Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association
Shortlisted for the 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize by the International Science Council, Universitetet i Bergen and the European Consortium for Political Research
Neimanns, Erik (2017) Public opinion and social investment: How political-institutional context shapes support and opposition towards expanding childcare. Dissertation, Universität Konstanz.
The introductory chapter can be accessed here.
Journal articles
Neimanns, Erik & Björn Bremer The local politics of social investment under fiscal constraints: The case of childcare expansion in Germany. Regulation & Governance (Online first): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.70037
Neimanns, Erik & Lucio Baccaro (2024) Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters. Journal of European Public Policy (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2398139
Baccaro, Lucio, Björn Bremer & Erik Neimanns (2024) Preferences for Growth Strategies in Advanced Democracies: A New "Representation Gap"? European Journal of Political Research (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12686
Baccaro, Lucio, Björn Bremer & Erik Neimanns (2022) Strategic Interdependence and Preferences for Debt Mutualization in the Eurozone. Review of International Political Economy (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2022.2107043
Baccaro, Lucio & Erik Neimanns (2022) Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure. West European Politics (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.2024010
Garritzmann, Julian L., Erik Neimanns & Marius R. Busemeyer (2021) Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction. European Journal of Political Research (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12501
Neimanns, Erik (2021) Welfare states, media ownership and attitudes towards redistribution. Journal of European Public Policy (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1986117
Neimanns, Erik (2021) Making mothers stay at home? Analyzing the impact of partisan cueing on attitudes towards maternal employment. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (Online first): https://academic.oup.com/sp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sp/jxab035/6373887
Neimanns, Erik (2021) Preferences, vote choice, and the politics of social investment: Addressing the puzzle of unequal benefits of childcare provision. Journal of Social Policy (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000325
Neimanns, Erik (2021) Unequal benefits - diverging attitudes? Analysing the effects of an unequal expansion of childcare provision on attitudes towards maternal employment across 18 European countries. Journal of Public Policy, 41 (2), 251-276.
Neimanns, Erik & Marius R. Busemeyer (2021) Class politics in the sandbox? An analysis of the socio-economic determinants of preferences towards public spending and parental fees for childcare. Social Policy & Administration, 55 (1), 226-241.
Baccaro, Lucio, Björn Bremer & Erik Neimanns (2021) Till austerity do us part? A survey experiment on support for the euro in Italy. European Union Politics (Online first): https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165211004772
Neimanns, Erik, Marius R. Busemeyer & Julian L. Garritzmann (2018) How Popular Are Social Investment Policies Really? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Eight Western European Countries. European Sociological Review, 34 (3), 238-253.
Garritzmann, Julian L., Marius R. Busemeyer & Erik Neimanns (2018) Public Demand for Social Investment: New Supporting Coalitions for Welfare State Reform in Western Europe? Journal of European Public Policy, 25 (6), 844-861.
Busemeyer, Marius R., Julian L. Garritzmann, Erik Neimanns & Roula Nezi (2018) Investing in education in Europe: Evidence from a new survey of public opinion. Journal of European Social Policy, 28 (1), 34-54.
Busemeyer, Marius R. & Erik Neimanns (2017) Conflictive preferences towards social investments and transfers in mature welfare states: The cases of unemployment benefits and childcare provision. Journal of European Social Policy, 27 (3), 229-246.
Book chapters and discussion papers
Neimanns, Erik & Antonella Faggin (2025) Zugangshürden zu Betreuung im Kita- und Grundschulalter trotz Rechtsanspruch. DIFIS-Studie 2025/5. Deutsches Institut für Interdisziplinäre Sozialpolitikforschung.
Baccaro, Lucio, Bremer, Björn & Erik Neimanns (2023) What Growth Strategies Do Citizens Want? Evidence from a New Survey. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/4. Köln.
Neimanns, Erik & Nils Blossey (2022) From Media-Party Linkages to Ownership Concentration: Causes of Cross-National Variation in Media Outlets’ Economic Positioning. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/8. Köln.
Baccaro, Lucio & Erik Neimanns (2021) Determinants of Wage (Dis-)Satisfaction: Trade Exposure, Export-Led Growth, and the Irrelevance of Bargaining Structure. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/3. Köln.
Baccaro, Lucio, Bremer, Björn & Erik Neimanns (2020) Is the Euro up for Grabs? Evidence from a Survey Experiment. MPIfG Discussion Paper 20/10. Köln.
Busemeyer, Marius R. & Erik Neimanns (2019) Öffentliche Meinung und Policy Feedback. In Handbuch Sozialpolitik, herausgegeben von H. Obinger und M. G. Schmidt (Springer VS 2019).
Blog posts and media appearance
Die deutsche Exportstrategie geht zulasten der breiten Bevölkerung, June 13, 2022, Jacobin.
"Education amidst Covid-19", fifteeneightyfour blog, Cambridge University Press, 16 September 2020 (with Marius R. Busemeyer and Julian L. Garritzmann), link: https://t.co/KkLbV9wUte?amp=1.
“Coronabonds beliebter als gedacht” (taz, 6 May 2020; by Ulrike Herrmann; referring to our study on Strategic Interdependence and Preferences for Debt Mutualization in the Eurozone, with Lucio Baccaro and Björn Bremer).
"Everyone thinks that Germans oppose "coronabonds". Our research shows how they´re wrong.", The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage), 20 April 2020 (with Lucio Baccaro and Björn Bremer).
"Ricerca: Metà dei tedeschi sono favorevoli a condividere il debito, solo il 35% contrari", Il Fatto Quotidiano, 10 April 2020 (with Lucio Baccaro and Björn Bremer).
"Unequal benefits - diverging attitudes: How an equal expansion of childcare attenuates backlash against egalitarian gender norms", Cambridge Core blog, 14 January 2020, link: http://ow.ly/22FI50xUW0s.
Data collections
Busemeyer, Marius R., Julian L. Garritzmann, Erik Neimanns and Roula Nezi (2018) Investing in Education in Europe: Attitudes, Politics and Policies (INVEDUC). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6961 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13140