Assoz. Prof. Carolina Plescia, BA MA PhD
Carolina Plescia
T: +43-1-4277-49904
Sommersemester 2024
Wintersemester 2023
Sommersemester 2023
210083 SE BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Digital Democracy (engl.)










Kritzinger, S., Plescia, C., Partheymüller, J., & Brandl, D. (2022). The Future of the EU Post-Brexit: What do Citizens Want?. Beitrag in EPSA 2022: European Political Science Association general conference, Prague, Tschechische Republik.









Kritzinger, S., Plescia, C., & Partheymüller, J. (2021). If elections were held during a pandemic, what type of voting would voters prefer?. Beitrag in ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes Königreich.

Inaugural Jean Blondel Lecture at the University of Essex

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r)

16 Nov. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Autor*in), Cal Le Gall (Autor*in), Ming Manuel Boyer (Vortragende*r), Maria Belen Abdala (Autor*in) & Anna Lia Brunetti (Autor*in)

9 Dez. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Cal Le Gall (Vortragende*r), Carolina Plescia (Autor*in), Maria Belen Abdala (Autor*in), Anna Lia Brunetti (Autor*in) & Ming Manuel Boyer (Autor*in)

2 Dez. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meanings of voting and perceptions of election integrity in US elections

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r), Maria Belen Abdala (Vortragende*r), Elizabeth J. Zechmeister (Invited speaker), Jason S. Maloy (Invited speaker), Anna Lia Brunetti (Autor*in), Ming Manuel Boyer (Autor*in), Cal Le Gall (Autor*in) & Zita Zeberer (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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r), Anna Lia Brunetti (Vortragende*r), Tiago Ventura (Invited speaker), Diego Garzia (Invited speaker), Ming Manuel Boyer (Autor*in), Maria Belen Abdala (Autor*in), Cal Le Gall (Autor*in) & Zita Zeberer (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

Ming Manuel Boyer (Vortragende*r), Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Cal Le Gall (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

Ming Manuel Boyer (Autor*in), Anna Lia Brunetti (Selected presenter) & Carolina Plescia (Autor*in)

16 Sep. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Ming Manuel Boyer (Vortragende*r), Carolina Plescia (Autor*in) & Cal Le Gall (Autor*in)

14 Sep. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Ming Manuel Boyer (Vortragende*r), Carolina Plescia (Autor*in) & Cal Le Gall (Autor*in)

25 Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Julia Partheymüller (Vortragende*r), Sylvia Kritzinger (Autor*in), David Brandl (Autor*in) & Carolina Plescia (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

Cal Le Gall (Vortragende*r), Maria Belen Abdala (Autor*in) & Carolina Plescia (Autor*in)

14 Juli 202217 Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Julia Partheymüller (Vortragende*r), David Brandl (Autor*in), Sylvia Kritzinger (Autor*in) & Carolina Plescia (Autor*in)

23 Juni 202225 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meanings of voting for ordinary citizens, their causes and consequences

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

14 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

14 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r)

5 Mai 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

29 März 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

7 Dez. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

18 Nov. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

9 Okt. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

29 Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Do European elections enhance satisfaction with European Union democracy?

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

14 Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Invited speaker)

13 Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r)

28 Mai 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Citizen disenchantment with democracy in Europe

Pieter de Wilde (Vortragende*r), Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Oliver Treib (Vortragende*r)

24 Apr. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r)

12 Okt. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r), Andre Blais (Autor*in) & John Högström (Autor*in)

14 Sep. 201816 Sep. 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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Hyunjin Song (Autor*in)

6 Sep. 20188 Sep. 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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Hyunjin Song (Autor*in)

22 Aug. 201825 Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science




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

Jakob-Moritz Eberl (Vortragende*r) & Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r)

1 Dez. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Davide Morisi (Vortragende*r)

14 Sep. 201716 Sep. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Magdalena Staniek (Vortragende*r)

8 Sep. 201710 Sep. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Autor*in), Sylvia Kritzinger (Vortragende*r) & Markus Wagner (Autor*in)

6 Sep. 20179 Sep. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How government alternation shapes voter incentives to engage in compensational voting

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Francesco Zucchini (Autor*in)

22 Juni 201724 Juni 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Intra-cabinet and intra-party conflict and retrospective voting

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Sylvia Kritzinger (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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r) & Francesco Zucchini (Vortragende*r)

22 Juni 201724 Juni 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Carolina Plescia (Vortragende*r)

18 Mai 2016

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


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