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Luis Sattelmayer
PhD Candidate
Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)
Research Interest(s): party competition, party communication, political parties, electoral behavior, quantitative and computational social science methods Competition Between Equals: Explaining mainstream party decline in western European democracies
Biography
Under the supervision of Jan Rovny, Luis is working on the decline of traditional center-left and center-right parties, also known as mainstream parties. In particular, he is investigating the influence of the rise of far-right parties, the politicization of migration and the mainstream parties' own agency on this development. In his research, he primarily uses computational and experimental methods to examine party discourse and to find new ways of measuring party positions and party behavior.
Conferences
- "Measuring party-issue linkages in newspapers", COMPTEXT, Amsterdam, Mai 2024 (avec Malo Jan)
- Tallent Théodore, Jan Malo, Sattelmayer Luis, Do symbolic policies affect support for costly policies ? Journées d’études Sciences Po-INED, juin 2023
Current Research
Since September 2022, Luis Sattelmayer is a PhD student in political science at Sciences Po's Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He is a graduate of Sciences Po's Master of Research in Political Science (specializing in comparative politics), where he wrote a mixed-methods thesis on the positioning of German parties on the political issue of immigration.
Thesis topic
Between Accommodation and Adversary. A Comparative Study of Mainstream Parties' Engagement with the Populist Far-Rights' Salient Issues
Teaching
- 2025: "Computational Social Sciences", inter-semester course in English (Master’s and PhD students), Sciences Po, School of Research (24 hours) with Malo Ja
- 2024-2025: "Introduction to Quantitative Methods 2", course in English (Master's level), Sciences Po, School of Research (2 x 12 hours)
- 2023-2024: "Introduction to Quantitative Methods 2", course in English (Master's level), Sciences Po, School of Research (2 x 12 hours)
- 2023-2024: "Introduction to Political Science", course in English (Undergraduate level), Sciences Po, Nancy Campus (2 x 24 hours)
- 2023-2024: "Comparative Politics", (Undergraduate level), Sciences Po, Nancy Campus (2 x 24 hours)
- 2022-2023: "Introduction to Political Science", course in English (Undergraduate level), Sciences Po, Nancy Campus (2 x 24 hours)
- 2022-2023: "Social Inequalities in Western democracies", Teaching Assistant, Common Curriculum (Master's level), Sciences Po (16 hours)
publications
Jan, Malo, & Sattelmayer, Luis (2025). PartySOME: A comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. Party Politics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068825138876
Simon Audebert, 2024, “Baromètre Écologie Environnement (ELIPSS 2023)”, https://doi.org/10.21410/7E4/OH0RKI,_data.sciencespo , V2
Tallent, T., Jan, M., & Sattelmayer, L. (2024). More than Symbols: The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Suppor t. OSF Preprints.
