Research Interests
Political Behaviour, Political Representation, Public Opinion, Comparative Politics, European Union Politics, Quantitative Research Methods, Text Analysis, Survey Experiments.
Publications
- Sorace, M. (2018) Legislative Participation in the EU: An analysis of questions, speeches, motions and declarations in the 7th European Parliament European Union Politics, 19(2) 299–320
- Sorace, M. (2018). The European Union democratic deficit: Substantive representation in the European Parliament at the input stage. European Union Politics, 19(1), 3-24
Under Review / Working Papers
- Sorace, M., Hobolt, S. “A Tale of Two Peoples: Motivated Reasoning in the aftermath of the Brexit vote” – under review at PSRM
- Sorace, M. “The Politics of Debate in the European Parliament: Participation and Ideology” in Bäck, H. et al. The Politics of Debate in Democracies Oxford University Press – expected publication: Spring 2020
- Sorace, M., Wratil, C. “Popular wisdom or flimsy excuse? The impact of representation gaps on populist party success”
- Boussalis, C., McElroy, G., Sorace, M. “Exploring women’s political agenda using a dynamic topic model”
Blog Posts
- Archibugi, M. and Sorace, M. Is Brexit a contest between low-earning Leavers and high-earning Remainers? LSE Brexit Blog 18th March 2019
- Sorace, M. Topic-modelling the 2019 European Parliament Elections: the long awaited battle over the ‘Soul of Europe’? LSE European Politics and Policy Blog – 14th February 2019
- Sorace, M. and Hobolt, S. B. Distorted Perceptions: how Leavers and Remainers view the economy and with what consequences LSE British Politics and Policy Blog – 14th August 2018
- Sorace, M. The European Parliament is more representative of European citizens than we give it credit for LSE European Politics and Policy Blog – 8th January 2018
- Sorace, M. Taking back control, actually: reforming the European Parliament elections LSE European Politics and Policy Blog – 19th June 2017
