About

Francesco Marolla is a political sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan, where he works on the European project LONELY-EU. His research covers support for populist and radical-right parties, social isolation and loneliness and their consequences for political behaviour, public attitudes towards artificial intelligence, and the long-term restructuring of political cleavages in Europe. He works mainly with national and comparative surveys such as the ESS, EVS and EES, in R and Stata. His methodological work centres on multilevel modelling of cross-national data, measurement equivalence, panel analysis and survey experiments. He designed and teaches Applied Quantitative Methods, a PhD course at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, and has taught a master's research seminar at Tilburg University. At the ECPR Winter School 2027 he teaches Multilevel Models: Specification, Inference and Reporting.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Extremism, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Theory, Populism, Political Sociology, Quantitative, Comparative Perspective, Public Opinion, Survey Research, Voting Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Voting Advice Applications