Swiss Chair in Federalism, Democracy and International Governance

As part of my Chair, I have active collaboration with the Graduate Institute in Geneva. This collaboration has thus far taken the following forms:

1. An annual 10-credit seminar on European politics
2. An annual graduate conference, that takes place in Florence, connecting PhD students from the EUI, the Graduate Institute, and Oxford
3. Research collaboration with members of Geneva and other Swiss institutions
4. A series of methodological workshops, implemented via zoom, offered in common to students of the EUI and the Graduate Institute

Together with colleagues in History and Law, I am coordinating the cluster on Democracy in the 21st century, which organises events and seminars on a variety of topics about democracy, its prospects and its challenges.

• 2019 Family History and Attitudes Toward Outgroups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis (with Vasiliki Fouka and Alain Schläpfer), Journal of Politics, Forthcoming, Media Coverage: Kathimerini.
• 2019 Does exposure to the refugee crisis make natives more hostile? (with Dominik Hangartner, Konstantinos Matakos and Dimitrios Xefteris), American Political Science Review, 113(2): 442-55. Winner of the Michael Wallerstein Award for the best published article in political economy.
• 2019 Waking Up to a Golden Dawn: How Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Shapes Political Behavior (with Dominik Hangartner, Konstantinos Matakos and Dimitrios Xefteris), Political Analysis, 27(2): 244-54.
• Thinking Fast and Furious: Emotional Intensity and Opinion Polarization in Online Media (with David Asker), Public Opinion Quarterly, 83(3): 487-509.
• The Ideological Shadow of Authoritarianism (with Ksenia-Northmore Ball), Comparative Political Studies, Online View: 7 July, 2019.

• Seminar: The Statistics of Causal Inference, Winter 2023
• Workshop: Field Experiments II, with Miriam Golden, Jake Bowers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Nahomi Ichino (Emory University), and Maarten Voors (Wageningen University), Spring 2022
• Seminar: Political Culture, Winter 2022
• Seminar: The Statistics of Causal Inference, Autumn 2021
• Workshop: Field Experiments, Spring 2021 (with Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
• Workshop: Machine Learning, Spring 2021 (with Lukas F. Stoetzer, Humboldt-Universität)
• Seminar: Political Culture, Winter 2021
• Seminar: The Statistics of Causal Inference (with Miriam Golden and Andrea Ichino, ECO), Autumn 2020
• Workshop: Data Management in STATA (with Ellen Immergut and Juho Härkönen), Spring 2020
• Seminar: Causal Inference, Winter 2020
• Seminar: Advanced Research Design (with Fabrizio Bernardi), Winter 2020
• Seminar: Introduction to Research Design (with Anton Hemerijck), Autumn 2019
• Bottom-up Workshop: Spatial Data Analysis (with Karsten Donnay, Melanie Sauter, and Mar Cañizares Espadafor), 27-29 May, 2019
• Workshop: Social Network Analysis (with Paulo Serôdio), 20-22 May, 2019
• Workshop: Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis (with Ellen Immergut and Iñaki Sagarzazu), 23-26 April, 2019
• Bottom-up Workshop: Data management in R (with Juho Härkönen and Adrián Del Río Rodríguez, and Shpend Kursani), 9, 11, 12 April, 2019
• Seminar: Causal Inference, Winter 2019
• Seminar: Introduction to Research Design (with Anton Hemerijck), Autumn 2018
• Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (with Juho Härkönen), Autumn 2018
• Workshop: Web Scraping and Text Mining, 14-19 May 2018
• Seminar: Causal Inference, Winter 2018

I am currently supervising 14 students working on topics of memory, intergroup relations, norm change, conflict, gender and culture. I am particularly interested in supervising topics on how political stigmas emerge and change. One example is the stigmatization of authoritarian ideology and symbols, after successful democratic transitions. How do such bias affect political attitudes and how do such biases change over time? Here is an example of a paper that tries to address these questions. In general, I am very much interested in how context and space can shape or constrain expressed political preferences.