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Webinar #3 in the first semester of the academic year 2025-2026. Article to be presented: "Promoting Democracy Online," which is a working paper based on her current ERC project "Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it"

14 January 2026
Prof. Anja Neundorf | University of Glasgow, U.K.
“Promoting Democracy Through Social Media”

Past Events

10 December 2025
Prof. James Druckman | University of Rochester
"Reducing Antidemocratic Attitudes”
Webinar #2 in the first semester of the academic year 2025-2026. Article to be presented: “Reducing Antidemocratic Attitudes,” based on a co-authored 2024 article in Science that conducts a megastudy of 25 treatments that aim to reduce antidemocratic attitudes. Slides that includes links to select experimental treatments can be found here. All of the experimental interventions tested in this article can be found here.

19 November 2025
Prof. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Young People’s Political Expression on Social Media”
Webinar #1 in the first semester of the academic year 2025-2026. Book chapter presented "Young People, Politics, Social Media" in: "Not Your Parents' Politics" (co-authored with Ioana Literat and published by Oxford University Press in 2024)

18 June 2025
Prof. Christopher Wlezien | University of Texas at Austin
"Democratic Policy Representation is (Really) Hard”
Webinar #3 in the second semester of the academic year 2024-2025. Working paper presented:
Wlezien, Christopher (2025): “Democratic Policy Representation is (Really) Hard.”

04 June 2025
Prof. Carolina Plescia | University of Vienna & PI of the ERC project DeVOTE
“The Meanings of Voting for Ordinary Citizens”
Webinar #2 in the second semester of the academic year 2024-2025. Forthcoming book presented:
Plescia, Carolina. (2025) "The Meanings of Voting for Citizens: A Scientific Challenge, a Portrait, and Implications" Oxford University Press

07 May 2025
Prof. Stephen Ansolabehere | Harvard University
Prof. Shiro Kuriwaki | Yale University
“Representation in America”
Webinar #1 in the second semester of the academic year 2024-2025. Working paper presented:
Ansolabehere, Stephen and Shiro Kuriwaki. (2025). "Collective Representation in Congress"

22 January 2025
Prof. Yotam Margalit | Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Political Consequences of Green Policies”
Webinar #3 in the first semester of the academic year 2024-2025. Article presented:
Colantone, Italo, Livio Di Lonardo, Yotam Margalit, and Marco Percoco. 2024. “The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy.” American Political Science Review 118(1): 108–26.

08 January 2025
Prof. Ruth Dassonneville | KU Leuven, Belgium
"Gender Gap in Voter Turnout"
Webinar #2 in the first semester of the academic year 2024-2025. Article presented:
Dassonneville, Ruth and Filip Kostelka. 2021. "The Cultural Sources of the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout." British Journal of Political Science, 51(3): 1040-1061.

05 December 2024
Prof. Anne Rasmussen | King's College London
"Costs of Running and Engaging in Politics"
Webinar #1 in the first semester of the academic year 2024-2025. Article presented:
Eady, Gregory and Anne Rasmussen. 2024. “Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies.” American Political Science Review, Advance online publication, December 6, 2024.

10 July 2024
Prof. Hahrie Han | Johns Hopkins University
"Organizing and Democracy”
Webinar #3 in the second semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Article presented:
Han, Hahrie, Matthew Baggetta, and Jennifer Oser. 2024. "Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action." Annual Review of Political Science, 27(1).

19 June 2024
Prof. Rachel Gibson | University of Manchester, U.K.
"Online Influencers”
Webinar #2 in the second semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Article presented:
Gibson, Rachel, Esmeralda Bon, Philipp Darius, and Peter Smyth. 2023. "Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?" Media and Communication, 11 (3):12.

22 May 2024
Prof. André Blais | University of Montreal
"Participation and Representation”
Webinar #1 in the second semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Article presented:
Blais, André, et al. 2023. "What Kind of Electoral Outcome do People Think is Good for Democracy?", Political Studies, 71 (4):1068-89.

6 March 2024
Prof. Theda Skocpol | Harvard University
"Citizen Organizing and Partisan Polarization”
Webinar #3 in the first semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Book chapter presented:
Skocpol, Theda, Caroline Tervo, and Kirsten Walters. 2021. "Citizen Organizing and Partisan Polarization from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance." In Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization?, ed. K. M. Roberts, R. C. Lieberman and S. Mettler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 369-400).

21 February 2024
Prof. Noam Lupu | Vanderbilt University
“Poll Workers and the Effects of Political Participation”
Webinar #2 in the first semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Working paper presented, titled "Poll Workers and the Effects of Political Participation."

17 January 2024
Prof. Michael Delli Carpini | University of Pennsylvania
“Digital Media and Democratic Futures”
Webinar #1 in the first semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Book chapter presented:
Delli Carpini, Michael X. 2019. "Digital Media and the Future(s) of Democracy" In: Digital Media and Democratic Futures, ed. Michael X. Delli Carpini. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (pp. 1-14).