Florian Stoeckel, PhD

I am a political scientist interested in comparative politics, European politics, and political psychology. I work as Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter in the UK. Previously, I was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. I received my PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I am also the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the British Academy which deals with fake news and solutions to the problem of misinformation on social media (www.citizen-online.org). Beginning in January 2023, I will additionally lead a Work Package of the Horizon and UKRI funded project Push*Back*Lash. 

In my research I seek to unravel how citizens understand politics and how they form political preferences. I focus on some of the most important issues that shape the conflicts of our time: identities, the EU, tolerance, gender inequality, conspiracy theories, and vaccine hesitancy. My work is published in the European Journal of Political Research, Political Psychology, European Union Politics, the​ Journal of Common Market Studies, the International Journal of Press/Politics, the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, and the Journal of European Public Policy.

My work in the domain of public health is published in Vaccine, PLOS  One, Public Understanding of Science, and the European Journal of Public Health.

​Media coverage in the German newspaper FAZ can be found here and a recent radio interview can be accessed here. 

I occasionally write for lay outlets including The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post, The European, and the LSE Europp blog. 

- my googlescholar profile & my researchgate site with full text access to some of my publications

University of Exeter
Department of Politics
Amory Building, Rennes Drive
Exeter, Devon
EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom
​f.stoeckel@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: @FlorianStoeckel

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​News:

27/01/2023 New article accepted at the European Journal of Public Health.  Vaccine attributes and vaccine uptake in Hungary: Evidence from a conjoint experiment. With Jack Thompson, Sabrina Stöckli, Nina Spälti, Joseph Philips, Matt Barnfield, Ben Lyons, Vitorio Merola, Paula Szewach, and  Jason Reifler. Link will be posted soon.

23/11/2022 New article accepted at Public Understanding of Science. It is entitled "Partisanship and anti-elite world views as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain". With Nina Spälti, Ben Lyons, Sabrina Stöckli, Paula Szewach, Vittorio Merola, Paula Gonzales, and Jason Reifler. Link will be posted soon.

5/8/2022 New article accepted at Vaccine. It is entitled "Stamping the vaccine passport? Public support for lifting COVID-19 related restrictions for vaccinated citizens in France, Germany, and Sweden". Link 

31/3/2022 New article accepted at PLOS ONE. It is entitled "Which Vaccine Attributes foster Vaccine Uptake? A Cross-Country Conjoint Experiment", it is coauthored with Sabrina Stöckli, Jack Thompson, Anna Spälti, Joseph Philips, Ben Lyons, Vittorio Merola, Jason Reifler, Matthew Barnfield and Paula Szewach. Link

23/3/2022 New article accepted at the European Journal of Public Health. It is entitled: The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe; it is coauthored with Charlie Carter, Ben Lyons, and Jason Reifler. Link.

06/1/2022 New article accepted at the European Journal of Political Research. It is entitled "Political Tolerance in Europe: The Role of Conspiratorial Thinking and Cosmopolitanism"; it is co-authored with Besir Ceka. Link.

28/7/2021 Radio interview with me on Deutschlandfunk Nova (in German) on the relationship between vaccine hesitancy and political attitudes. www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/impfbereitschaft-kein-impfzwang-sondern-auseinandersetzung-mit-aengsten-der-skeptiker

​25/7/2021 Interview with me in the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, in German) on our research on vaccine hesitancy in Exeter. www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/medizin-ernaehrung/impfskeptiker-und-populismus-wie-erreicht-man-die-zweifler-17449931.html