ENDURE

ENDURE is an international research project funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (total budget: €1.5 million).

I serve as Lead Researcher on Cluster III, the project's survey study. I designed and fielded a six-country survey experiment across the UK, US, Germany, Poland, Croatia, and Brazil testing the causes of populist, ethnonationalist, and authoritarian attitudes. Theories of populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism share similar causal explanations—economic shocks, cultural threat—yet the concepts are frequently treated as synonymous rather than analytically distinct. The experiment is designed to disentangle these: treatments connected to economic inequality, increasing immigration, culture war issues, and the corporate capture of political institutions are tested for their effects on each orientation separately. Within each national sample, data were collected to operationalize Erik Olin Wright's class location matrix, enabling analysis of how class position mediates the relationship between these triggers and political attitudes across national contexts.