My research interests lie at the intersection of political behavior and comparative politics, primarily focusing on how experiences in formative environments shape political attitudes. By examining how experiences during the formative years influence attitudes toward democracy and the far right, my research explores how these formative experiences may have broader implications for democratic support and the quality of democratic regimes.
PhD Dissertation
Political Socialization in an Era of Democratic Strain: Families, Parties, and Democratic Backsliding (in progress)
My PhD thesis consists of three papers examining how political attitudes are shaped by formative experiences, transmitted across generations, and become politically activated. The first paper (co-authored with Anja Neundorf) studies the role of formative erosion for the formation of democratic attitudes. The second examines whether being raised with an authoritarian parenting style can act as a pathway to persistent authoritarian values. The third uses a novel between-subjects vignette experiment to examine how mainstream party strategies towards the far-right produces partisan-motivated reasoning among voters. Methodologically, I rely on a range of cross-sectional observational data, panel data, and survey experiments.
- Democracy Learned or Lost? Formative Exposure to Democratic Erosion (with Anja Neundorf)
- Strict Parents, Strict Politics? Authoritarian Parenting and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Orientations
Invited to the Electoral Studies special issue “Coming of Age in Turbulent Times: Political Socialization and Youth in the 21st Century” - Whose Party, Whose Principles? Partisan-Motivated Reasoning in Responses to Radical Right Moralization
Works in Progress
- Too Many Elections? Electoral Overload and the Formation of Voting Habits (with Berta Caihuelas Navajas & Erick Padilla)
