Publications

Monographs (Peer-Reviewed):

• Björn Bremer. 2023. Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed):

• Björn Bremer and Reto Bürgisser. 2024. Lower Taxes at All Costs? Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Four European Countries. Journal of European Public Policy. Online first.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, and Erik Neimanns. 2024. Preferences for Growth Strategies in Advanced Democracies: A New ‘Representation Gap’? European Journal of Political Research. Online first.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Franceso Nicoli, David van der Duin, Roel Beetsma, Björn Bremer, Brian Burgoon, Theresa Kuhn, Maurits Meijers, and Anniek de Ruijter. 2024. Closer During Crises? European Identity During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Journal of European Public Policy. Online first.
  Online appendix
• Björn Bremer, Theresa Kuhn, Maurits Meijers, and Francesco Nicoli. 2024. In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis. Journal of European Public Policy. 31(9):2582–2610.
  Preprint version / online appendix
• Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, and Erik Neimanns. 2023. Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the Eurozone. Review of International Political Economy 30(4):1459-1485.
  Preprint version / online appendix
• Björn Bremer and Line Rennwald. 2023. Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered. Party Politics 29(4):741-754.
  Preprint version / online appendix
• Björn Bremer, Donato di Carlo, and Leon Wansleben. 2023. The constrained politics of local public investments under cooperative federalism. Socio-Economic Review 21(2):1007-1034.
  Preprint version / online appendix
• Björn Bremer and Reto Bürgisser. 2023. Public opinion on welfare state recalibration in times of austerity: Evidence from survey experiments. Political Science Research and Methods 11(1):34-52.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Björn Bremer and Reto Bürgisser. 2023. Do citizens care about government debt? Evidence from survey experiments on budgetary trade-offs and priorities. European Journal of Political Research 62(1):239-263.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Björn Bremer and Marius Busemeyer. 2022. Fiscal policy preferences, trade-offs, and support for social investment. Journal of Public Policy 42(4):684-704.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Abel Bojar, Björn Bremer, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Chendi Wang. 2022. The effect of austerity packages on government popularity during the Great Recession. British Journal of Political Science 52(1):181-199.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, and Erik Neimanns. 2021. Till austerity do us part? A survey experiment on support for the Euro in Italy. European Union Politics 22(3):401-423.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Björn Bremer, Swen Hutter, and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2020. Dynamics of protest and electoral politics in the Great Recession. European Journal of Political Research 59(4):842-866.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material
• Björn Bremer, Philipp Genschel, and Markus Jachtenfuchs. 2020. Juncker’s curse? Identity, interest and public support for the integration of core state powers. Journal of Common Market Studies 58(1):56-75.
  Preprint version / online appendix
• Björn Bremer and Sean McDaniel. 2020. The ideational foundations of social democratic austerity in the context of the Great Recession. Socio-Economic Review 18(2):439-463.
  Preprint version
• Björn Bremer. 2020. The political economy of the SPD reconsidered: Evidence from the Great Recession. German Politics 29(3):441-463.
  Preprint version
• Björn Bremer. 2018. The missing left? Economic crisis and the programmatic response of social democratic parties in Europe. Party Politics 24(1):23-38.
  Preprint version / online appendix / replication material

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes:

• Björn Bremer. Forthcoming. “The electoral consequences of centrist policies: Fiscal consolidations and the fate of social democratic parties.” In Silja Häusermann and Herbert Kitschelt (eds.), Beyond Social Democracy: The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Björn Bremer. 2022. “Public preferences towards social investment: Comparing patterns of support across three continents.” In Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Palier (eds.), The World Politics of Social Investment (Volume I): The Welfare State in the Century of Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Björn Bremer, Swen Hutter, and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2020. “Electoral punishment and protest politics in times of crisis.” In Hanspeter Kriesi, Jasmine Lorenzini, Bruno Wüest, and Silja Häusermann (eds.), Contention in Times of Crises: Comparing Political Protest in 30 European Countries, 2000-2015. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Björn Bremer and Julia Schulte-Cloos. 2019. “The restructuring of British and German party politics in times of crisis”. In Hutter, Swen and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.), European Party Politics in Times of Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Björn Bremer and Guillem Vidal. 2018. “From boom to bust: A comparative analysis of Greece and Spain under austerity”. In Doxiadis, Evdoxios and Aimee Placas (eds.), Living Under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis. New York: Berghahn Books.

Book Reviews:

• Björn Bremer. 2019. The Clientelistic Turn in Welfare State Policy-Making: Party Politics in Times of Austerity, Evelyne Hübscher, London, ECPR Press / Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. (2018). Swiss Political Science Review 25(3):330-333.

Policy Papers:

• Björn Bremer. 2024. Why social democratic parties do not benefit from orthodox fiscal policies. PPRNet Research Brief.
• Hanna Schwander and Björn Bremer. 2024. Why the rise of the greens does not threaten the welfare state. PPRNet Research Brief.
• Guido Baldi, Björn Bremer and Thore Schlaak. 2017. International investments and current account imbalances: The importance of valuation changes. DIW Round-up 117, 7 December 2017.
• Guido Baldi and Björn Bremer (2015). The evolution of Germany’s net foreign asset position. DIW Economic Bulletin, 22+23/2015, pp. 303-309.
• Stefan Bach, Guido Baldi, Kerstin Bernoth, Björn Bremer, Beatrice Farkas, Ferdinand Fichtner, Marcel Fratzscher, and Martin Gornig 2013. More growth through higher investment. DIW Economic Bulletin, 08/2013, pp. 5-16.

Published Working Papers:

• Maurits Meijers, Björn Bremer, Theresa Kuhn, and Francesco Nicoli. 2023. Partisan cueing and preferences for international cooperation. SocArXiv Preprint.
• Erik Neimanns and Björn Bremer. 2024. The local politics of social investment under fiscal constraints: The case of childcare expansion in Germany. SocArXiv Preprint.
• Björn Bremer, Jeffrey Chwieroth, and Andrew Walter. 2024. How much do citizens care about ethnic wealth gaps? Inequality and support for financial market stabilization in times of crisis. SocArXiv Preprint.