People: Research Faculty
Charlotte Cavaillé
Faculty Associate
Appointments
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies
Degree
PhD Government and Social Policy 2014 Harvard University
Other
Research
Charlotte Cavaillé is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her research examines the dynamics of popular attitudes towards redistributive social policies at a time of rising inequality, high fiscal stress, and high levels of immigration. Her first book, Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality (CUP, Comparative Politics series, 2023), investigates the “missing left turn,” namely the absence of an egalitarian policy response to rising inequality. Fair Enough? has won two best book awards from the Class & Inequality and the European Politics & Society sections of the American Political Science Association. It also received an honorable mention for the Luebbert Prize in Comparative Politics. Articles related to her second book project, Borders of Solidarity, Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited, have appeared in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics and the Journal of Economic Literature. She has also published work on the measurement of mass public opinion, particularly how best to measure the intensity of individual support for changes to the status quo. Ongoing lines of research include the study of people’s perceptions of free riding among net beneficiaries of social spending, the politics of debt management in post-industrial democracies, and institutional change in interwar France.
Contact
Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan
426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104–2321, United States
Phone
Phone: 734–764–3490
Phone: 734–764–8354
Email: [email protected]
University of Michigan Online Directory listing
Selected Publications
Please also see Charlotte Cavaillé’s Curriculum Vitae (CV).
Her book is Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
“How Distributional Conflict over In-Kind Benefits Generates Support for Far-Right Parties,” with Jeremy Ferwerda (Dartmouth). Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Award for the APSA Migration and Citizenship section. The Journal of Politics (Forthcoming)
“Elite Cues and Economic Policy Attitudes: The Mediating Role of Economic Hardship.” Political Behavior (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09768-w (with A. Neundorf)”
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Understanding Survey Response: Likert vs. Quadratic Voting for Attitudinal Research” University of Chicago Law Review 87, 22-43, (with DL Chen and K. Van Der Straeten)
“The two facets of social policy preferences,” The Journal of Politics 77 (1), 146-160, (with KS Trump)
Projects
“Why do Some Hold More Punishing Attitudes than Others? Implications for Social Policy Preferences.”
“Measuring Preference Intensity: Quadratic Voting for Survey Research versus Conjoint Analysis Applied to Welfare Chauvinism”
“Social Solidarity in France During the Great Depression: Did Immigration Hinder the Creation of Unemployment Funds.” (With Anne Degraves and Victor Gay)
“World War I and Women’s Political Rights: Why Did France Fail to Pass Universal Suffrage?” (With Victor Gay)
“Can Machine Learning Help With Theory Generation?” (With Sabina Tomkins)