Dr Miriam Sorace
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Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
Areas of interest
Electoral Behaviour; Public Opinion; Political Campaigns; European Politics; European Union
Postgraduate supervision
Electoral Behaviour; Public Opinion; Political Campaigns; European Politics; European Union
Research centres and groups
Comparative Politics Group
Background
I specialise in electoral behaviour and public opinion analysis, with a focus on European (incl. British) and European Union politics. I use quantitative research methods in my research, particularly machine learning and in causal inference methods, with a focus on survey experiments.
Academic qualifications
PhD, MPhil, BA
Professional bodies/affiliations
Visiting Associate Researcher at the University of Oxford (DPIR); Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (Data Science Institute)
Websites/blogs
www.miriamsorace.github.ioSelected publications
1. Sorace, M. (2023) \Does Populist Voting Rise where Representative Democracy is Systemically Failing?" Electoral Studies
2. Sorace, M. (2022) \The Ties that Unbind: Intergovernmental Decision Rules and the Policy-Opinion Link" Journal of European Public Policy, 30(8), pp. 1609-1632.
3. Sorace, M. (2022) \European Parliament: Debating in a Legislature with Competing Incentives". In: Black, H. et al. The Politics of Legislative Debate - Oxford University Press
4. Sorace, M., Hobolt S. B. (2021)\A Tale of Two Peoples: Motivated Reasoning in the aftermath of the Brexit Vote" Political Science Research and Methods, 9(4), pp. 675-692.
Winner of the 2021 British Election Study Best paper award.
5. Sorace, M. (2021) \Productivity-Based Retrospective Voting: Legislative Productivity and Voting in the 2019 European Parliament Elections" - Politics, 41(4), pp. 467 - 485.
6. Sorace, M. (2018) \Legislative Participation in the EU: An analysis of questions, speeches, motions and declarations in the 7th European Parliament". European Union Politics, 19(2), pp. 299-320.
7. Sorace, M. (2018). \The European Union democratic de cit: Substantive representation in the European Parliament at the input stage". European Union Politics, 19(1), pp. 3-24.