Sophie Mainz

PhD student at Department of Government; Doctoral Students

Telephone:
+46 18 471 37 46
E-mail:
sophie.mainz@uu.se
Visiting address:
Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

I am a political scientist and postdoctoral researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany, and a PhD candidate in Political Science at Uppsala University. My research examines how political elites shape public attitudes and democratic support through their words and actions, both offline and on social media. I examine how elite communication influences support for liberal democracy and liberal backsliding, with particular attention to the politics of gender.

Keywords

  • liberal democracy
  • public opinion
  • political psychology
  • political communication
  • selective liberalism
  • femonationalism
  • social media
  • experiments
  • computational social science

Biography

You can learn more about my work on my website:

https://sophiemainz.github.io/

Sophie Mainz

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