Miroslav Nemcok, Ph.D. - Projects

Miroslav Nemcok, Ph.D.

Ongoing projects

Welfare State Support and Political Trust: Integrating Economic, Cultural, and Policy Explanations (WELTRUST)

University of Oslo | Web page | Funded by: Norwegian Research Council

Project is led by Staffan Kumlin.

This project analyzes two sets of political orientations that help reveal if the policies and politics of mature welfare states enjoy popular legitimacy. One is "welfare state support," i.e. attitudes to government redistribution to various groups in society (for example to "the old", to "the unemployed", or to various immigrant groups). The other orientation is "political trust"; this can mean satisfaction with democratic processes and trustworthiness of politicians and societal "elites". We investigate how welfare state support and political trust depend on citizens' evaluations of "welfare state performance."

Past projects

Contestation of Truth: Public Discourses on Migration in Central Europe in the Post-Truth Era

Masaryk University | Web page | Funded by: Czech Science Foundation

Project is led by Alena Kluknavská.

This project takes the debate on migration as a prime example to examine a post-truth discourse as a concomitant of the media representation of a politically highly salient and polarizing topic. In doing so, it is guided by the following two broader research questions:

1. How does the post-truth discourse become visible in the public debate?

2. What factors determine the visibility and contents of the post-truth discourse?

Don't Count Your Voters before They Are Satisfied: What Leads People to Support Democratic Systems?

University of Helsinki | Funded by: Finnish Cultural Foundation

I was the principal investigator of the project.

This project seeks to identify and understand determinants of satisfaction with democracy and finds a way how to effectively stimulate them. It examines satisfaction with democracy across various institutional and societal contexts with an intention to understand the factors that thrive people’s support for democratic systems they are part of.

Facilitating Electoral Participation from Abroad (FACE)

University of Helsinki | Web page | Funded by: Finnish Cultural Foundation

Project was led by Johanna Peltoniemi together with Hanna Wass.

The research project Facilitating Electoral Participation from Abroad (FACE) analyses transnational political participation and the representation of Finnish citizens living abroad. The two main objectives of the project are:

1. to scrutinize the biases related to the electoral participation of Finnish citizens living abroad and

2. to identify methods that help to mobilize the electorate based outside of Finland.

Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation – BIBU

University of Helsinki | Web page | Funded by: Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland

Project is led by Anu Kantola. My work is conducted under the work package Mapping Biases and Bubbles in Citizen Participation led by Hanna Wass.

BIBU explores how the global flux of economic restructuring, urbanisation, and migration, changes citizens’ political capacities, interests, and emotions, and how the political system responds to these changes. The interdisciplinary consortium is composed of researchers from the fields of politics, psychology, social policy, sociology, economics, and communications.

Distributive Politics in Central Europe

Masaryk University | Web page | Funded by: Czech Science Foundation

Project was led by Peter Spáč.

The project understands pork barrel spending as a complex process that connects different aspects of politics. First, it shows how political parties and their nominees use public money to establish a system of rewards for their allies at the expense of their opponents. Second, the consequences of pork barrel politics can potentially affect the elections as the core arena of political competition in liberal democracy.

From Measuring to Learning; How to Improve Our Programs by Joint Evaluations

International Debate Education Association | Web page | Funded by: Erasmus+ Youth

Project was led by Anne Valkering.

“From Measuring to Learning” is an impact study that focused on the impact of debate education in secondary schools in 8 European countries. The impact evaluation was carried out in the Netherlands (IDEA NL), Czech Republic (ADK), Romania (ARDOR), Slovakia (SDA), Estonia (EDS), Lithuania (EDC), Latvia (DC), and in Macedonia YEF). The evaluation focused on the level that critical thinking and democratic values improved due to series of debate education lessons either via clubs or classes to a similar group of young people at secondary school level.

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