About

Hey! I am a fourth-year PhD Student in Social and Political Science at Bocconi University. My research focuses on understanding how citizens and politicians navigate the boundaries between liberal and illiberal political attitudes and behaviors. In other work, I explore the implications of far-right parties and actors in government. In a recent paper, Simon van Teutem, Catherine de Vries and I study if and when citizens support disruptive and violent climate protests.

During the 2023-24 academic year I was a visiting student at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University and at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. I also served as an APSA Public Scholar Fellow during the 2023-24 A.Y. You can find my public-faced summaries of APSR articles on politicalsciencenow.com.

Before my doctoral studies, I earned an MA in Liberal Studies and Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary European Studies from Duke University (Concentration: Political Science), where I was a Fulbright Scholar, and an MA in Media Studies from Erasmus University (NL).

This website is a placeholder for an updated personal website coming soon. You can find a shortened version of my recent cv here.

Working Papers

de Kleer, D., van Teutem, S., & De Vries, C. E. (2024). Public Support for Pro-Climate and Counter-Climate Protests. Preprint here