Since January 2023 I am enrolled as a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Leiden University. The title of my PhD-project is ‘The Effect of media exposure to Authoritarian Discourse on the Electoral Support for authoritarian parties’.
In my PhD research, I analyze the impact of what I call ‘media authoritarian diffusion’ – the spread of authoritarian discourse through media channels affiliated with authoritarian states – on the level of electoral support that authoritarian parties receive in post-communist countries. I’ve translated this media authoritarian diffusion as the exposure to Russia’s state-affiliated media. In a first paper, I analyze the effect of exposure to Russia’s state-affiliated media on the electoral support for authoritarian parties in post-communist countries.
Van Vliet (forthcoming). Pro-Kremlin narratives in Russia’s ‘near abroad’: the influence of media exposure to authoritarian discourse in post-communist countries.
As part of my doctoral research, in June, I will conduct a survey experiment in Estonia, aiming to understand how media influences voter behavior. This survey experiment is pre-registered.
Van Vliet (forthcoming). Pre-Analysis Plan. Retrieved from https://osf.io/mbyz7.
Attended conferences
- ECPR general conference 2022 (Innsbruck)
- EDC (Elections-Democracy-Crisis) 2024 (Warsaw)
- Politicologenetmaal 2024 (Maastricht)
- Council for European Studies 2024 (Lyon)