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Dr Monica Poletti

Monica

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Monica is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary University of London, a lecturer at City University and associate lecturer at London School of Economics. She is interested in all aspects of political participation in Europe, including party membership in Britain, which is the main focus of her ESRC current project at Queen Mary. As well as her ongoing interest in Italian and European countries’ electoral behaviour and politics-related attitudes, she is currently researching populism and Euroscepticism in Western Europe.Monica is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary University of London, a lecturer at City University and associate lecturer at London School of Economics. She is interested in all aspects of political participation in Europe, including party membership in Britain, which is the main focus of her ESRC current project at Queen Mary. As well as her ongoing interest in Italian and European countries’ electoral behaviour and politics-related attitudes, she is currently researching populism and Euroscepticism in Western Europe.

Research

Research Interests:

  • Political behaviour/Political participation
  • Party members
  • Populism

Publications

2017 So who really does the donkey work in ‘multi-speed membership parties’? Comparing the election campaign activity of party members and party supporters, Electoral Studies, 46, 64-74 (with Webb, P. & Bale, T.). doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2017.02.002

2016 Media and Campaign Effects on Vote Choice at National Elections in Europe: A Review of a Multilingual Research Landscape. Studies in Communication | Media, 5(2), 129-172 (with Boomgaarden, H. G. & Schmitt-Beck, R. and with Brandenburg, H., Cunha, C., Hopmann, D. N., O’Malley, E., Popescu, M., Teperoglou, E., & Tworzecki, H.)  doi: 10.5771/2192-4007-2016-2-129

2015 The Cognitive Mobilization of Organizational Participation: Missing Evidence from Italy, 1972-2006. Electoral Studies, 40, 4, 245-255. doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2015.09.003

2015 Renzi’s Honeymoon Effect: The 2014 European Election in Italy (with Segatti, P. & Vezzoni, C.). South European Society & Politics, 20: 3, 311-331. doi: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1075709

2014 Availability or disengagement? How Italian citizens reacted to the two-faced parliamentary grand coalition supporting the Monti government. Polis, 28 (1), 61-84 (with Vegetti, F. & Segatti, P.). doi: 10.1424/76410

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