Dr. Sebastian Adrian Popa

Former Reseacher
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Research Interests

  • Political behavior and public opinion in a comparative perspective
  • The genetics of political behavior
  • Measurement issues in political science

Profile/Career

Projects

RP9 B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

RP9
Elite–Public Interactions on Social Media: Facilitating or Undermining Democracy?

RP9 B3 Democratic Multilevel Governance and Europeanization

RP9
European Election Study 2014

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Journal Articles

Hobolt, Sarah B., Sebastian Adrian Popa, Wouter van der Brug and Hermann Schmitt (2022): The Brexit deterrent? How member state exit shapes public support for the European Union. European Union Politics, 23, issue 1, pp. 100-119. more
Fazekas, Zoltán, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Hermann Schmitt, Pablo Barberá and Yannis Theocharis (2021): Elite‐public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign. European Journal of Political Research, 60, issue 2, pp. 376-396. more
Schäfer, Constantin, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Daniela Braun and Hermann Schmitt (2021): The reshaping of political conflict over Europe: from pre-Maastricht to post-‘Euro crisis’. West European Politics, 44, issue 3, pp. 531-557. more
van der Brug, Wouter, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Sarah B. Hobolt and Hermann Schmitt (2021): Illiberal democratic attitudes and support for European integration. Politics, 41, issue 4, pp. 537–561. more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Zoltán Fazekas, Daniela Braun and Melanie-Marita Leidecker-Sandmann (2020): Informing the Public: How Party Communication Builds Opportunity Structures. Political Communication, 37, issue 3, pp. 329-349. more
Braun, Daniela, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Hermann Schmitt (2019): Responding to the crisis: Eurosceptic parties of the left and right and their changing position towards the European Union. European Journal of Political Research, 58, issue 3, pp. 797-819. more
Braun, Daniela, and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2018): This time it was different? The salience of the Spitzenkandidaten system among European parties. West European Politics , 41, issue 5, pp. 1125-1145. more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Delia Dumitrescu (2017): National but European? Visual manifestations of Europe in national parties’ Euromanifestos since 1979. Party Politics, 23, issue 5, pp. 526–537. more
Dumitrescu, Delia, and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2016): Showing their true colors? How EU flag display affects perceptions of party elites’ European attachment. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, issue 14, pp. 1698-1718. more
Nulty, Paul, Yannis Theocharis, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Olivier Parnet and Kenneth Benoit (2016): Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Electoral Studies, 44, issue December, pp. 429–444. more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Yannis Theocharis and Christian Schnaudt (2016): From Seeing the Writing on the Wall, to Getting Together for a Bowl: Direct and Compensating Effects of Facebook Use on Offline Associational Membership. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 13, issue 3, pp. 222-238. more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Robert Rohrschneider and Hermann Schmitt (2016): Polarizing without legitimizing: The effect of lead candidates’ campaigns on perceptions of the EU democracy. Electoral Studies, 44, issue December, pp. 469–482. more
Theocharis, Yannis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Olivier Parnet (2016): A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates. Journal of Communication, 66, issue 6, pp. 1007 - 1031. more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2015): Political sophistication in Central and Eastern Europe: How can parties help?. Party Politics, 21, issue 3, pp. 440-455 . more
Schmitt, Hermann, Sarah B. Hobolt and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2015): Does personalization increase turnout? Spitzenkandidaten in the 2014 European Parliament elections. European Union Politics, 16, issue 3, pp. 347–368. more
Hannagan, Rebecca J., Levente Littvay and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2014): Theorizing Sex Differences in Political Knowledge: Insights from a Twin Study. Politics & Gender, 10, issue 1, pp. 89-114. more
Littvay, Levente, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Zoltán Fazekas (2013): Validity of Survey Response Propensity Indicators: A Behavior Genetics Approach. Social Science Quarterly, 94, issue 2, pp. 569-589. more

Book Chapters

Braun, Daniela, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Hermann Schmitt (2021): The impact of Eurosceptic challenger parties of the left and right on party competition over Europe. Pp. 45-73 in: Maurizio Cotta, Pierangelo Isernia (Eds.) The EU Through Multiple Crises: Representation and Cohesion Dilemmas for a “sui generis” Polity. London and New York: Routledge. more
Schnaudt, Christian, Stefanie Walter and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2016): Subnational and National Territorial Identification. Pp. 63-92 in: Bettina Westle, Paolo Segatti (Eds.) European Identity in the Context of National Identity: Questions of Identity in Sixteen European Countries in the Wake of the Financial Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Tóka, Gabór, and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2013): Hungary. Pp. 291-338 in: Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman, Frank H. Aarebrot (Eds.) The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe. 3rd ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. more

Thesis

Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2015): Politically Competent Citizens: The Role of Predispositions and Political Context in Comparative Perspective. Budapest: Central European University. [Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations; PhD] more

Papers / Reports

Schmitt, Hermann, and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2016): Turnout in the EP elections of 2014. Stockholm [Report; 2016] more

Conference Presentations

Fazekas, Zoltán, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Hermann Schmitt and Pablo Barberá (2018): No Engagement, No Diffusion? The EU on Social Media. [Conference of the ECPR Standing Groups on the European Union, Paris, June 13th to June 15th, 2018] more
Schäfer, Constantin, Daniela Braun, Hermann Schmitt and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2018): Tale of Two Realignments? The changing relationship between ideological dimensions and party positions towards European integration. [8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 21st to June 23rd, 2018] more
Schnaudt, Christian, and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2018): A matter of political sophistication? The relationship between institutional performance and political trust reconsidered. [12th ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, August 22nd to August 25th, 2018] more
Braun, Daniela, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Hermann Schmitt (2017): Responding to the crisis: Eurosceptic parties of the left and right and their changing position towards the European Union. [113th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, August 31st to September 03rd, 2017] more
Braun, Daniela, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Hermann Schmitt (2017): Responding to the crisis: Eurosceptic parties of the left and right and their changing position towards the European Union. [Conference "Rejected Europe. Beloved Europe. Cleavage Europe?", Florence, May 18th to May 19th, 2017] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Zoltán Fazekas and Daniela Braun (2017): Informing the Public: Party and Candidate Communication Compared across Platforms. [75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Zoltán Fazekas and Daniela Braun (2017): Informing the Public: Party and Candidate Communication Compared across Platforms. [7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, June 22nd to June 24th, 2017] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Zoltán Fazekas and Daniela Braun (2017): Informing the Public: Party and Candidate Communication Compared across Platforms. [113th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, August 31st to September 03rd, 2017] more
Braun, Daniela, and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2016): The effect of lead candidates emphasized in election manifestos on the relevance of European elections. [EUENGAGE Text Analysis Workshop, University of Amsterdam , June 22nd to June 23rd, 2016] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Jan Rosset and Christian Stecker (2016): What favors the congruence between citizens and their governments? Multi-dimensional ideological congruence and party systems. [ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, September 07th to September 10th, 2016] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Jan Rosset and Christian Stecker (2016): What favors the congruence between citizens and their governments? Multidimensional ideological congruence and party systems. [6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Brussels, June 23rd to June 25th, 2016] more
Fazekas, Zoltán, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Hermann Schmitt, Pablo Barberá and Yannis Theocharis (2015): When to talk about Europe? Selective Europeanization of the 2014 EP Elections. [5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 25th to June 27th, 2015] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Pablo Barberá and Hermann Schmitt (2015): A Common Multidimensional Political Space for Voters, Parties, and Legislators in Europe. [73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 16th to April 19th, 2015] more
Rohrschneider, Robert, Hermann Schmitt and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2015): Polarizing Without Politicizing: The Effect of Lead Candidates’ Campaigns on Perceptions of the EU Democracy. [73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 16th to April 19th, 2015] more
Theocharis, Yannis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2015): A Bad Workman Blames his Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use when Interacting with Party Candidates. [111th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 03rd to September 06th, 2015] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Yannis Theocharis (2014): Direct and Moderating Effects of Facebook Use on Associational Membership. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Delia Dumitrescu (2014): How the European Flag Helps Shape Perceptions about Parties’ European Identity. [72nd Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Chicago, IL, April 03rd to April 06th, 2014] more
Schmitt, Hermann, Sarah B. Hobolt and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2014): “Spitzenkandidaten” in the 2014 European Parliament Election: Does Campaign Personalization Increase the Propensity to Turn Out?. [ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, September 03rd to September 06th, 2014] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Hermann Schmitt (2013): Electoral performance in second order elections: Emphasizing the context. [41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Delia Dumitrescu (2013): European Identity at the Party Level. [3rd Annual General Conference of European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Mikolaj Czesnik, Piret Ehin, Ain? Ramonaite and Gabór Tóka (2013): Party system consolidation and electoral choice. [6th Management Committee and Working Groups Meetings, COST Action IS0806, Trinity College, Dublin, October 10th to October 13th, 2013] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2012): ELECDEM Final Conference. [What Helps Citizens to Have Consistent Attitudes? A Cross Country Analysis of the Individual and Contextual Determinants of Attitude Constraint., Florence, June 28th to June 30th, 2012] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Juraj Medzihorsky (2012): Handling misreporting in selfreported turnout using multiple overimputation. [70th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12th to April 15th, 2012] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2012): Progress report on the TEV macro- data. [COST Action IS0806: 5th Management Committee Meeting and Working Groups Meeting, Institue of international Relations and Political Science, Vilnius, October 19th to October 20th, 2012] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2012): What Helps Citizens to Have Consistent Attitudes? A Cross Country Analysis of the Individual and Contextual Determinants of Attitude Constraint.. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, Lo, August 30th to September 02nd, 2012] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2012): “Attitude congruent” electoral decisions. A cross-country analysis of the quality of electoral decisions. [4th Graduate Network Conference, Berlin, March 22nd to March 24th, 2012] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian (2012): “Attitude congruent” electoral decisions. A cross-country analysis of the quality of electoral decisions. [70th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12th to April 15th, 2012] more