Florian Stoeckel, PhD

I am a political scientist interested in comparative politics, European politics, and political psychology. I received my PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. Currently, I am a 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 am also the Principal Investigator of the project "Distrust, Conspiracies, and the Political Challenges of Coping with Covid-19". The project is funded by the British Academy and will run from November 2020 to July 2022. I conduct the project with co-investigators Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York) and Jason Reifler (Exeter).

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 the medical journal Vaccine. Recent 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

News:

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 and materials will be available soon.

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