Sophie Mainz

Short presentation

I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at Uppsala University, where I study 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 and sexuality.

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/