Research
Titles link to the published version of each article. For a full record, see my CV.
Journal Articles
Do Women MPs Influence Parties’ Policy Images? European Journal of Political Research, forthcoming
Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals British Journal of Political Science, 2026
Executive Approval in Extraordinary Times: Comparing across Crises Constitutional Political Economy, 2026
Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization British Journal of Political Science, 2025
Does Political Sophistication Moderate How Citizens Infer Left-Right Distances between Political Parties? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 2024
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization across Countries? Public Opinion Quarterly, 2023
Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics American Political Science Review, 2023
Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies British Journal of Political Science, 2023
The Way We Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility Comparative Political Studies, 2023
Populism and the Affective Partisan Space in Nine European Publics: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey Frontiers in Political Science (Special Issue on Affective Polarization), 2022
Books
Who Attacks Whom? Conflict and Cooperation between European Parties Cambridge University Press, Elements in European Politics, forthcoming
American Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective Cambridge University Press, Elements in American Politics, 2020
Rally or Reprimand? Public Support for Leaders in Times of Crisis Under review
Book Chapters
The Economy and Affective Polarization In The Elgar Handbook of Affective Polarization, 2025
The Formation and Development of Liberal Democracy In The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies, 2020
Data and Software
Parties’ Social Group Appeals (PSoGA) Database Group appeals coded at the sentence level in 791 election manifestos from 139 parties in eight European countries, 1970–2025 Article
ManifestoVault V1.0 Full-text election manifestos annotated at the natural-sentence level DataverseNL
groupappeals Python package for detecting and classifying group appeals in political texts GitHub
Working Papers
Using Language Models to Detect Group Appeals in Parties’ Election Manifestos Under review
Changing the Face of the Party: How Political Parties Use Candidate Selection to Influence Voter Perceptions Under review
Social Group Appeals and Affective Polarization Under review
Reward or Reprimand? Conflict, Salience, and Public Reactions to Leaders in Times of Crisis Under review