"How do politicians respond to different types of uncertain phenomena (radical, resolvable)?"
This 5-year project, funded by an ERC Consolidator grant (#101043543) awarded to Barbara Vis, aims to develop a theory to answer this question. To this end, it focuses on how politicians respond to different types of uncertainty in countries with different opportunities and constraints of responding to uncertainty: Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Belgium (Flanders). We examine among other things whether and how the behavioral responses to uncertainty are shaped by politicians’ characteristics, like personality, and by institutional factors, like the political system.
An extended synopsis of the RADIUNCE project is available here.