Sofia Breitenstein
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BRIDGEGAP project
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Biography
Sofia Breitenstein is a postdoctoral fellow at BRIDGEGAP (Bridging the Gaps in Evidence, Regulation, and Impact of Anticorruption Policies). She completed a PhD in Political Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2020. Her dissertation analyzed citizens’ attitudes towards corruption and their consequences on political behaviour.
Her main areas of research are corruption accountability, public opinion, and political behaviour.
Previously, she was a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Quality of Government Institute (University of Gothenburg) and Griffith University.
Awards
- 2020. Extraordinary doctorate award by the Autonomous University of Barcelona
- 2022. Prize for best book chapter “The Political Consequences of Corruption Scandals: Main Findings
and Challenges” by the Spanish Political Science Association - 2024. Prize for the best presentation “Looking the other way? Selective information exposure and the
electoral punishment of corruption” by the Spanish Political Science Association
Research
Research interests
- Corruption
- Public Opinion
- Political Behaviour
Research projects
Selected publications
- 2024.Too Crooked to be Good? Trade-offs in the Electoral Punishment of Malfeasance and Corruption.European Political Science Review,Link
- 2022.Do They Really Care? Social Desirability Bias in Attitudes towards Corruption.Research & Politics,9(4)Link
- 2019.The Political Consequences of Corruption Scandals: Main Findings and Challenges.In:
Tumber, Howard and Waisbord, Silvio (Eds.)
.The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal.Link - 2019.Choosing the crook: A conjoint experiment on voting for corrupt politicians.Research & Politics,6(1)Link