Differential Discrimination against Mobile EU Citizens: Experimental Evidence from Bureaucratic Choice Settings
Christian Adam, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Oliver James, Anita Manatschal, Carolin Rapp & Eva Thomann
| Résumé |
EU citizens have rights when living in a member state other than
their own. Bureaucratic discrimination undermines the operation of
these rights. We go beyond extant research on bureaucratic
discrimination in two ways. First, we move beyond considering
mobile EU citizens as homogenous immigrant minority to assess
whether EU citizens from certain countries face greater
discrimination than others. Second, we analyse whether
discrimination patterns vary between the general population and
public administrators regarding attributes triggering
discrimination and whether accountability prevents discrimination.
In a pre-registered design, we conduct a population-based conjoint
experiment in Germany including a sub-sample of public
administrators. We find that (1) Dutch and fluent German speakers
are preferred, i.e. positively discriminated, over Romanians and EU
citizens with broken language skills, that (2) our way of holding
people accountable was ineffective, and that (3) in all these
regards discriminatory behaviour of public administrators is
similar to the general population. |
| Mots-clés |
Accountability; Conjoint experiment; Discrimination; EU citizenship; Street-level bureaucracy |
| Citation | Adam, C., Fernández-i-Marín, X., James, O., Manatschal, A., Rapp, C., & Thomann, E. (2021). Differential Discrimination against Mobile EU Citizens: Experimental Evidence from Bureaucratic Choice Settings. Journal of European Public Policy, online view, 1-19. |
| Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
| Date de publication | 23-4-2021 |
| Nom du périodique | Journal of European Public Policy |
| Volume | online view |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1912144 |
| Liée au projet | Overcoming Bureaucratic Discrimination Against Mobile EU ... |