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 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 Vaccine, PLOS  One, and the European Journal of Public Health.

​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

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:

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