After looking into how women and men speak differently in parliament (here), and how women's speaking style changes the longer they're in office (here) we are currently collecting data on committee membership across 15 countries, to see how women's speaking styles is related to their political career progression.
In different projects, I currently look at how populist attitudes are not connected to affective polarization across countries (with Alberto Stefanelli), what drives support for populist parties in conjoint experiments (with Fabian G. Neuner, Chris Wratil, and Kirill Zhirkov, following our findings from here and a comprehensive overview of country- and individual-level drivers of populist attitudes across countries and regions (with Kirk A. Hawkins, Levente Littvay, and Eduardo Ryô Tamaki
Using a unique dataset with all posts on Facebook by all members of national parliaments in the 27 EU countries + the UK, from 2018 to 2023, we investigate patterns of politicians spreading misinformation, in particular related to the Covid-19 pandemic