Dr Diane Bolet is a specialist in electoral behavior, public opinion, and territorial and climate public policies in Europe. Her research focuses on local and contextual factors, as well as the role of the media in explaining the rise of the far right in Europe. She also studies the electoral and attitudinal consequences of territorial and climate public policies affecting communities vulnerable to structural changes, including mining communities facing decarbonisation and just transition policies, as well as European farmers subject to environmental conditionalities.

Diane uses mixed methods, primarily quantitative, including observational data analysis for causal inference, survey studies combined with local contextual data, experimental surveys, as well as qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups.

She was awarded a five-year ERC Starting Grant (2026–2031) to further her research on the consequences of climate policies for carbon-intensive communities (mining, gas, oil, and agricultural) in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Poland. Her work combines cross-national survey data with local contextual data, experimental surveys, and qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups. As part of this project, she will recruit a PhD student and a research assistant to start in September 2026, and a postdoctoral researcher in 2028.

Diane Bolet received her PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020. She subsequently held postdoctoral positions at King’s College London and in Zurich, and assistant professor positions at the University of Durham and the University of Essex, before joining the CEE at Sciences Po in 2025.

At the CEE, Diane Bolet plans to teach an elective course in English titled Comparative Environmental Politics starting in Autumn 2026. Prior to joining the CEE, she taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses at the LSE and the University of Essex, covering topics such as electoral behavior, political psychology, public policy, and comparative environmental and climate politics. She has also supervised numerous undergraduate and graduate theses, totaling around thirty.

ERC Starting Grant: EUR 1,495,953, 2026-2031 

2025: Honourable Mention, Best Article Award in European Politics, American Political Science Association, European Politics Section

2022: Shortlisted Article, Best Paper Award in Political Studies Review 

2021: Honourable Mention, Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Prize, Politics, American Political Science Association, European Politics Section

2014: Best Undergraduate Dissertation, King’s College London

Bolet, D. and Foos, F. (2025). Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views. British Journal of Political Science, 55:e103. 

Bolet, D. and Campbell, R. (2024). How (Non-)Localness A ects MPs Responsiveness: Evidence from a UK Field Experiment. British Journal of Political Science, 54(4):14461456. 

Sorace, M. and Bolet, D. (2024). Vox Populi, Vox Dei: Sociotropic and Egocentric Incongruence in Democratic Preferences. European Journal of Political Research, 64:456470. 

Schakel, W. et al. (2024). How Political and Social Constituency Traits A ect Legislators Responsiveness: A Comparative Field Experiment. European Journal of Political Research, 64:229250. 

Bolet, D., Green, F. and Gonzalez-Eguino, M. (2023). How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The E ect of a Just Transition Agreement on Spanish Elections. American Political Science Review, 118(3):1344 1359. 

Bolet, D. (2023). The Janus-Faced Nature of Radical Voting: Subjective Social Decline and Support for Radical Right/Left. Party Politics, 29(3):475488. 

Campbell, R. and Bolet, D. (2022). Measuring MPs Responsiveness: How to Do It and Stay Out of Trouble. Political Studies Review, 20(2):175183. 

Bolet, D. (2021). Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Decline and Radical Right Support The Case of British Pub Closures. Comparative Political Studies, 54(9):16531692. 

Bolet, D. (2020). Local Labour Market Competition and Radical Right Voting: Evidence from France. European Journal of Political Research, 59:817841.