Malo Jan

Malo Jan is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris, under the supervision of Emiliano Grossman. He holds a research master’s degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris, where he wrote his master’s thesis on French MPs’ responses to climate change.

His primary research interests focus on political parties and climate politics. His dissertation examines political polarization around climate change in Western Europe. Specifically, he analyzes why party competition on climate change has shifted over the past decade, focusing on the role of radical right parties in this process and how their growing opposition shapes other parties’ rhetoric on climate issues. He is also interested in how elite rhetoric and behavior on climate issues influence public attitudes toward climate policies and electoral behavior. Beyond climate politics, his research engages more broadly with questions of party competition, particularly how parties use social media to promote public policy issues or appeal to specific social groups. His work has been published or will soon be published in journals such as American Political Science Review, Party Politics, Global Environmental Politics, and Revue Française de Science Politique.

Since beginning his master’s degree, he has developed a strong interest in computational social science. He applies these methods in his research to collect online data and develop new measures of political concepts from large text corpora. He also uses traditional quantitative methods, such as survey analysis, and has contributed to several survey projects, including the harmonization of existing datasets. He also teaches these methods at Sciences Po Paris.

Conferences

- Jan Malo, "Measuring climate change salience across policy issues in party communication with supervised machine learning," ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Lüneburg, March 2024 
- Jan Malo, "Who owns the climate? The evolution of climate issue ownership in France," ELIPSS CDSP Workshop, Sciences Po, April 2024 
- Jan Malo, "Climate change as a frame – How parties reframe other policy issues with climate change," COMPTEXT, Amsterdam, May 2024 
- Jan Malo, Luis Sattelmayer, "Measuring party-issue linkages in newspapers," COMPTEXT, Amsterdam, May 2024 
- Théodore Tallent, Jan Malo, Luis Sattelmayer, "Do symbolic policies affect support for costly policies?" Sciences Po-INED Study Days, June 2023 
- Jan Malo, "Climate change as a frame – How parties reframe other policy issues with climate change," French Political Science Association Congress, Grenoble, July 2024 
- Jan Malo, "When the Greens Lose the Ground – The evolution of climate issue ownership in France," French Political Science Association Congress, Grenoble, July 2024 
- Jan Malo, "When the Greens Lose the Ground – The evolution of issue ownership on climate change in France," European Political Science Association Conference, Cologne, July 2024

Under the supervision of Emiliano Grossman, his research focuses on the polarization surrounding climate issues and the public policies implemented to address them. His thesis aims to examine how the emergence of opposition discourses to climate policies influences party competition on these issues, as well as citizens' attitudes and electoral behavior. To analyze these dynamics, the project uses computational methods to measure party positions from large text corpora, as well as surveys and experimental methods.

A Conflictual Climate? The Transformation of Party Competition on Climate Issues in Europe

• 2026: Contemporary Transformations of Political Parties, seminar in French (M1), Université Panthéon-Assas (15h)
• 2026: Computational Social Science, inter-term course in English (Masters & Ph.D.), Sciences Po, School of Research (24h)
• 2025: Computational Social Science, inter-term course in English (Masters & Ph.D.), Sciences Po, School of Research (2x24h)
• 2024-2025: Introduction to Quantitative Methods, seminar in English (M1), Sciences Po, School of Research (3 x 12h)
• 2023-2024: Introduction to Quantitative Methods, seminar in French and English (M1), Sciences Po, School of Research (3 x 12h)
• 2023-2024: Comparative Politics, methodological lecture in French (L2), Sciences Po, Paris Campus (24h)
• 2023-2024: Ecological Culture, teaching assistant, core undergraduate course (L1), Sciences Po (16h)
• 2022-2023: Introduction to Political Science, methodological lectures in French (L1), Sciences Po, Poitiers Campus (2 x 24h)

Tallent, T., Jan, M., & Sattelmayer, L. (2026). More than symbols: The effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support. American Political Science Review, 1-21.

Jan, M., & Sattelmayer, L. (2025). PartySOME: A comprehensive dataset on political parties’ SOcial MEdia activity. Party Politics.

Grossman, E., & Jan, M. (2025). Executive Climate Change Attention: Toward an Indicator of Comparative Climate Change Attention. Global Environmental Politics, 1-14.