Postdoctoral Researcher
Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Observatory of Market Society Polarization (AXPO)
Research Interest(s): Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Empirical Autocratic Theory and Legacies, Democratisation, Rational Choice, Quantitative Methods, Quasi-Experimental Designs.
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Paris. I hold a D.Phil in Politics from the University of Oxford. My research interests lie in the fields of Political Economy and Comparative Politics. I focus on two main areas: authoritarian politics and legacies, and democratisation-related issues.
In my doctoral project, I developed a top-down rational choice approach to determine how legacies of autocratic regimes shape extremism after transitions to democracy. I am broadly interested in the economic legacies of autocracies, who gets to democratize and why, economic and material autocratic stabilisation mechanisms, threats to advanced democracies from an elite perspective, how the abundance of information affects rational voting decisions, European politics, and electoral behaviour. Methodologically, I’m interested in quantitative methods, and quasi-experimental designs.
I have previously briefly worked in journalism and consultancy. I read for an MA in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies (Summa cum laude) at the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal, with a full scholarship awarded by the Fundação Oriente. I hold a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics.
Book Manuscript
- Autocratic Legacies and Immunisation Against Extremism: A Rational Choice Approach
- Democratic Selection and the Role of Economic Clout
- Land Inequality and the Origins of Neo-Fascism in Post-War Italy
- Autocratic Legacies and Party Success: A Material Benefits Approach
- Measuring the Impact of Indoctrination and Welfare Redistribution in Autocratic Regimes (with Barbara Piotrowska)
- Economic Scarcity and Post-Transitional Extremism: Analysing Protests and Socio-Political Dynamics
- Legacies of Redistribution and the Emergence of Political Polarisation
Conferences (recent ones)