Assoz. Prof. Carolina Plescia, BA MA PhD
Carolina Plescia
T: +43-1-4277-49904
Wintersemester 2025
400013 SE Quantitative data: Research models and causality - Advanced methods seminar
Plescia, C., Boyer, M. M., & Blais, A. (2025). Voting against or against voting? European Journal of Political Research, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100364



Plescia, C., Boyer, M. M., Abdala, M. B., Brunetti, A. L., Kritzinger, S., Wagner, M., Tolochko, P., Le Gall, C., Zechmeister, E. J., & Blais, A. (2025). The Meanings of Voting for Citizens: A Scientific Challenge, a Portrait, and Implications. Oxford University Press (OUP). Comparative Politics https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198946335.001.0001

Plescia, C., Boyer, M. M., Brunetti, A. L., Le Gall, C., & Abdala, M. B. (2025, Jun 2). Election Survey Data on Citizen Meanings of Voting in 13 Countries (SUF edition). AUSSDA. https://doi.org/10.11587/1QQF9P


Plescia, C., Boyer, M. M., Abdala, M. B., & Brunetti, A. L. (2025). Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting. Political Research Quarterly, 78(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129251321424

Plescia, C., Le Gall, C., & Boyer, M. M. (Angenommen/Im Druck). Negative Campaigns, Negative Votes? Meanings of Voting and Political Campaigns. International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251376











Plescia, C., & Abdala, M. B. (2022). DeVOTE o qué significa votar para los ciudadanos. Heraldo De Aragón Editora.


IPP-CSIC - 'What do Citizens Dislike About Voting? Mapping Anti-Voting Orientations'

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

22 Okt. 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


‘The Liberal World at the Crossroads’, ÖGPW roundtable discussion

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

25 Sept. 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Presenting the working paper "What justifies voting for underperforming authoritarian leaders?", co-authored with Carolina Plescia and Sylvia Kritzinger

Brunetti, A. L. (Selected presenter), Plescia, C. (Autor*in) & Kritzinger, S. (Autor*in)

3 Juli 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



ECPR - Joint Sessions Workshops 2025 - "What does negative voting mean?" - paper presentation

Fauli Molas, C. (Selected presenter), Plescia, C. (Autor*in), Garzia, D. (Autor*in) & Ferreira Da Silva, F. (Autor*in)

20 Mai 202523 Mai 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Presenting the working paper "What justifies voting for underperforming authoritarian leaders?", co-authored with Carolina Plescia and Sylvia Kritzinger

Brunetti, A. L. (Selected presenter), Plescia, C. (Autor*in) & Kritzinger, S. (Autor*in)

19 Sept. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Presenting the working paper "What justifies voting for underperforming authoritarian leaders?", co-authored with Carolina Plescia and Sylvia Kritzinger

Brunetti, A. L. (Selected presenter), Plescia, C. (Autor*in) & Kritzinger, S. (Autor*in)

6 Juli 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Playing Favorites: Selective Attribution and Judgement Flexibility in Scandal Perception in 15 European Countries

Lasheras Mas, B. (Vortragende*r), Partheymüller, J. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Autor*in) & Kritzinger, S. (Autor*in)

2024 → …

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


When Accountability Fails: Understanding Voter Inaction in the Face of Political Scandals

Lasheras Mas, B. (Vortragende*r), Partheymüller, J. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Kritzinger, S. (Vortragende*r)

2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Inaugural Jean Blondel Lecture at the University of Essex

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

16 Nov. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


What we (don’t) know about voting and why it matters: Citizen meanings of voting

Plescia, C. (Autor*in), Le Gall, C. (Autor*in), Boyer, M. M. (Vortragende*r), Abdala, M. B. (Autor*in) & Brunetti, A. L. (Autor*in)

9 Dez. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meanings of voting: What we (don't) know about voting and why it matters

Le Gall, C. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Autor*in), Abdala, M. B. (Autor*in), Brunetti, A. L. (Autor*in) & Boyer, M. M. (Autor*in)

2 Dez. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meanings of voting and perceptions of election integrity in US elections

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r), Abdala, M. B. (Vortragende*r), Zechmeister, E. J. (Invited speaker), Maloy , J. S. (Invited speaker), Brunetti, A. L. (Autor*in), Boyer, M. M. (Autor*in), Le Gall, C. (Autor*in) & Zeberer, Z. (Autor*in)

22 Nov. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Negative or positive meanings of voting, or none at all? The meanings of voting in the Italian and Brazilian 2022 elections

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r), Brunetti, A. L. (Vortragende*r), Ventura, T. (Invited speaker), Garzia, D. (Invited speaker), Boyer, M. M. (Autor*in), Abdala, M. B. (Autor*in), Le Gall, C. (Autor*in) & Zeberer, Z. (Autor*in)

25 Okt. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Negative campaign, negative votes? Political Campaigns and Citizens’ Meanings of Voting in Hungary and the US

Boyer, M. M. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Le Gall, C. (Vortragende*r)

20 Okt. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


In It to Win It? The Role of Citizen Meanings of Voting in the Winner-Loser Gap of Diffuse Political Support

Boyer, M. M. (Autor*in), Brunetti, A. L. (Selected presenter) & Plescia, C. (Autor*in)

16 Sept. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


A Social Identity Perspective on Negative Campaigning: Effects of Positive, Negative and “Dirty” Campaigning by Ingroup and Outgroup Parties

Boyer, M. M. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Autor*in) & Le Gall, C. (Autor*in)

14 Sept. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Negative campaign, negative votes? How Political Campaigns Impact Citizens’ Meanings of Voting

Boyer, M. M. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Autor*in) & Le Gall, C. (Autor*in)

25 Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Future of the EU Post-Brexit: What Do Citizens Want?

Partheymüller, J. (Vortragende*r), Kritzinger, S. (Autor*in), Brandl, D. (Autor*in) & Plescia, C. (Autor*in)

22 Aug. 202226 Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The emergence and content of citizens’ meanings of voting: An analysis of focus groups and individual interviews

Le Gall, C. (Vortragende*r), Abdala, M. B. (Autor*in) & Plescia, C. (Autor*in)

14 Juli 202217 Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Future of the EU Post-Brexit: What Do Citizens Want?

Partheymüller, J. (Vortragende*r), Brandl, D. (Autor*in), Kritzinger, S. (Autor*in) & Plescia, C. (Autor*in)

23 Juni 202225 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meanings of voting for ordinary citizens, their causes and consequences

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

14 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The meanings of voting for ordinary citizens, their causes and consequences.

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

14 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

5 Mai 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Will the Orbán Regime Survive or Fall? Roundtable on the 2022 Hungarian Elections

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

29 März 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Compromising for worldly rewards? The short-term consequences of coalition agreements on voters

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

7 Dez. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Compromising for worldly rewards? The short-term consequences of coalition agreements on voters

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

18 Nov. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The State of the European Union: Reconnecting to European Citizens?

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

9 Okt. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

29 Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Do European elections enhance satisfaction with European Union democracy?

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

14 Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Euroscepticism in Italy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

Plescia, C. (Invited speaker)

13 Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Compromising for worldly rewards? The short-term consequences of coalition agreements on voters

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

28 Mai 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Citizen disenchantment with democracy in Europe

de Wilde, P. (Vortragende*r), Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Treib, O. (Vortragende*r)

24 Apr. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


A voting experiment on the input and output of electoral systems and democratic satisfaction

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

12 Okt. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


A voting experiment on the input and output of electoral systems and democratic satisfaction

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r), Blais, A. (Autor*in) & Högström, J. (Autor*in)

14 Sept. 201816 Sept. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Attitudinal and Social Antecedents of Right-wing Populist Support: The Moderating Role of Cross-Cutting Exposure on Populist Vote

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Song, H. (Autor*in)

6 Sept. 20188 Sept. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Attitudinal and Social Antecedents of Right-wing Populist Support: The Moderating Role of Cross-Cutting Exposure on Populist Vote

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Song, H. (Autor*in)

22 Aug. 201825 Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Against all Evidence? Voter preferences towards government formation after the elections and the role of populist attitudes

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Eberl, J.-M. (Vortragende*r)

21 Juni 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Coalitions in the News: How Saliency and Tone in News Coverage Influence Voters' Preferences and Expectations about Coalitions

Eberl, J.-M. (Vortragende*r) & Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

26 Mai 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Ill Informed? Media Bias and the Correctness of Voter Expectations of Coalition Outcomes

Eberl, J.-M. (Vortragende*r) & Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

1 Dez. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Learning from the other side: how social networks influence turnout in a referendum campaign

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Morisi, D. (Vortragende*r)

14 Sept. 201716 Sept. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


You can't always get what you want: Studying public opinion on multidimensional policies in the context of Brexit

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Staniek, M. (Vortragende*r)

8 Sept. 201710 Sept. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Improving Recall of Past Political Behaviour: Results from a question-wording Experiment in Austria, Germany and the UK

Plescia, C. (Autor*in), Kritzinger, S. (Vortragende*r) & Wagner, M. (Autor*in)

6 Sept. 20179 Sept. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How government alternation shapes voter incentives to engage in compensational voting

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Zucchini, F. (Autor*in)

22 Juni 201724 Juni 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Intra-cabinet and intra-party conflict and retrospective voting

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Kritzinger, S. (Vortragende*r)

22 Juni 201724 Juni 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Voting for policy when it matters: How government alternation shapes voter incentives to engage in compensational voting

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r) & Zucchini, F. (Vortragende*r)

22 Juni 201724 Juni 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


In the Eye of the Beholder: Voter Perceptions of Parties’ Policy Shifts

Plescia, C. (Vortragende*r)

18 Mai 2016

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Institut für Staatswissenschaft

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1090 Wien
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T: +43-1-4277-49904

carolina.plescia@univie.ac.at