Dr. Mohamed Nasr
Dr. Mohamed Nasr
Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
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Mohamed Nasr is a postdoctoral researcher in the European Political Group as a part of the ERC-funded project Rebordering Europe: Boundary Formation in European Integration (EUROBORD). Mohamed investigates the role of political parties in politicizing EU boundaries and leads data collection for the working package on political parties.
Mohamed has obtained his doctorate from the European University Institute in 2021 and Master of Science from the University of Oxford in 2018. His doctoral dissertation investigated how parties' electoral strategies, such as position avoidance and position blurring, shape voter perceptions of party positions. His work has recently appeared (or forthcoming) in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal European of Public Policy, Party Politics, and Electoral Studies. During his PhD, he has also been involved in designing and running cross-country surveys on public opinion and European solidarity in the framework of the EUI-YouGov ‘Solidarity in Europe’ project. Mohamed's research interests include party competition, political behavior, public opinion, and European politics. Empirically, he is interested in quantitative methods, survey experiments, and text-as-data methods.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
- Nasr, M. and Rieger, P. (2023), Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union.European Journal of Political Research.
- Nasr, M. and Hoes, E. (2023), The times they are a-changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U-turns.European Journal of Political Research.
- Nasr, M. (2023). The program-to-campaign linkage: Party organization and ideological inconsistency during election campaigns.Party Politics,0(0).
- Nasr, M. (2023). Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?Comparative Political Studies,56(6), 759-787.
- Nasr, M. (2021). The motivated electorate: Voter uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and ideological congruence to parties.Electoral Studies,72, 102344.
- Nasr, M. (2020). Voter perceptions of parties’ left–right positions: The role of party strategies.Electoral studies,68, 102239.
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