Stefano Sangiovanni

Hello, this is Stefano! 🌊

I’m a PhD candidate in Political Science at NASP, University of Milan under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Ceron and Prof. Giovanna Invernizzi. I recently completed a visiting fellowship at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), and from January 2026 I will join Trinity College Dublin as a visiting PhD candidate.

My research focuses on political parties and valence politics, analyzing how parties shape political competition by balancing positional and valence-based strategies in electoral campaigns and parliamentary debates. I also study how negative valence shocks, such as political scandals, affect voter perceptions.

I combine quantitative and computational methods, using text-as-data, survey experiments and large language models.

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to chat about research, political parties, nerdy stuff, music (punk!), and sports!