Florian Foos
I am an Associate Professor in Political Behaviour in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
About
As a behavioural and experimental political scientist, I study media and campaign influence in the UK and in other European democracies. I am particularly interested in how campaigns influence voters’ behaviour and shape the composition of the electorate, in how journalists’ coverage of extreme politicians shapes voters’ beliefs, and in how political beliefs and behaviours diffuse through social networks.
My methodological expertise is in field experimentation: the design, conduct and analysis of randomized experiments in settings with high ecological validity, often in collaboration with political parties, advocacy organisations and government agencies. I also use natural and quasi-experiments for causal inference, and have a growing methodological interest in meta-analysis.
My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, the European Journal of Political Research, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Experimental Political Science, and has won the APSA European Politics and Society Section’s Best Paper and Best Article Awards, the Rebecca Morton Award for the best article in JEPS, and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Emerging Scholar Award.
I hold a D.Phil. in Sociology (2015) from Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and am affiliated with the LSE Data Science Institute, the LSE Electoral Psychology Observatory and the Public Opinion Analytics Lab. I serve on the editorial boards of Political Behavior, Political Science Research and Methods and the Journal of Experimental Political Science, am a member of the APSA Presidential Task Force on AI, Politics, and Political Science and of EGAP, and co-organise the European Workshop in Empirical Political Science (EuroWEPS).
I am happy to hear from prospective students interested in doing a PhD at the LSE in areas related to my research.