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. During my PhD, I have also been a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and at Trinity College Dublin.

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!