Elias Dinas
Publications
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach
(with Jonne Kamphorst, Jonne Kamphorst, Alexander Davenport, Marcus Hagley & Arnout van de Rijt), Political Science Research and Methods, First View, 2026
Berlinguer, I Love You (Still): The Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting
(with Riccardo Di Leo & Biljana Meiske ), Political Behavior, 2025
Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners
(with Riccardo di Leo, Chen Zeng & Reda Tamtam), Political Analysis, 33 (4): 456-463, 2025
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms
(with Vicente Valentim & Daniel Ziblatt), British Journal of Political Science, 55: e105, 2025
Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy?
(with Vicente Valentim), British Journal of Political Science, 54(1): 152–178, 2024
Book Chapters
The Paradox of Territorial Autonomy: How Subnational Representation Leads to Secessionist Preferences
(with Nikos Skoutaris). In Richard Albert & Yaniv Roznai (eds.), Constitutionalism under Extreme Conditions, Springer, pp. 267–90, 2020
Electoral System and Party System Change
In Kevin Featherstone & Dimitri Sotiropoulos (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, Oxford University Press, 2019
The Acquisition of Voting Habits
In Justin Fisher et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion, Routledge, 2018
The Evolving Role of Party Identification
In Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans & Michael Lewis-Beck (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Electoral Behaviour, Sage, pp. 265–286, 2017
Voters and Parties in Spanish Political Space
(co-edited with Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca), Routledge, 2013
Working Papers
Are First-in-the-Nation States of Primary Importance? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
(with Jonne Kamphorst, Alex Davenport, Marcus Hagley & Arnout van de Rijt). Minor revisions, Political Science Research and Methods
Do In-Group Perpetrator Narratives Reduce Out-Group Animosity? Experimental Evidence Exploring Antisemitism
(with Laia Balcells & Ethan vanderWilden). Invited to revise and resubmit, British Journal of Political Science
Dodging the Past: Post-Authoritarian Asymmetric Party System Fragmentation
(with Riccardo di Leo & Ksenia Northmore-Ball). Under review.
Status Advantage: The Effect of Within-Party MP Status on the Career Progression of Elected Politicians
(with Ioannis Mastrominas). Under review.
The Name of the Game: Party Branding in Post-Authoritarian Regimes
(with Riccardo di Leo, Lucía Domenech & Ksenia Northmore-Ball). Under review.
Horizontal Transmission? Regional Norms and Migrant Acculturation
(with Eroll Kuhn & Anita Waldendorf). Under review.
The Rise and Fall of National Stigmas: Evidence from post-WWII Germany
(with Vicky Fouka & Daniel Ziblatt). Under review.
Work in Progress
Mating Market Competition and Gender Norms
(with Biljana Meiske)
Red Zones: Forced Displacement and Support for Radical Right Parties
(with Luis Bosshart, Florian Foos & Vicky Fouka)
Seeds of Indoctrination: Political Exile and the Unintended Consequences of Repression
(with Alsena Kokalari)
The Intrusion of Value Change: Mass Media and the Normalization of Contested Issues
(with Nerea Gándara & Reda Tamtam)
Why Collective Bodies Support Minorities: A Social Norms Approach
(with Marta Antonetti & Vicente Valentim)
Group Survival Strategies: The Case of Sephardic Jews in Interwar Salonica
(with Giorgos Antoniou, Vicky Fouka & Karmen Misiou)
Research Funding
ERC Consolidator Grant (POSTNORM)
Post-Authoritarian Norms and the Ideological Legacy of Dictatorships. €1.9 million, September 2023–2028.
EUI Widening Grant
Dynamics of Discrimination (with Biljana Meiske & Lamprini Rori). €23,000, 2025.
CIVICA Funding
Terrorism and Immigrant Perceptions (with Anna Getmansky & Julian Wucherpfenning). €10,000, 2022.
EUI Research Council Grant
Field experiment on refugee attitudes in Northern Greece. €25,000, 2019.
British Academy Leverhulme Grant
Survey on Refugee Arrivals and Outgroup Attitudes. £10,000, 2015.
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