Pavlos Vasilopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavlos Vasilopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavlos |
| FAMILY NAME | Vasilopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | VASILOPOULOS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1626-3150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 508 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice: A Longitudinal Analysis of the British Electorate
The nature, measurement, and correlates of the psychological trait of authoritarianism have spurred an intense and long-lasting debate in political psychology, dating back to the 1950s. This article aims at advancing extant knowledge on authoritarianism—measured here by child-rearing items—in two ways. First, by investigating the impact of authoritarianism on political attitudes and voting, net of individual heterogeneity, thus improving causal e…
Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain
Research has found that asset accumulation is associated with vote preferences, with those with a high number and value of assets being more likely to vote for centre-right parties. Yet the bulk of this literature often falls short of accounting for alternative mechanisms that could be driving this relationship. In this letter, we investigate the association between patrimony and the vote longitudinally, assessing the effects of within-person cha…
Immigrants' attitudes towards immigration: Convergence Towards Majority Views or Ethnoracial Polarization
Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise? Coethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Throughout Europe and North America, mainstream political parties have ceded electoral support to antiestablishment parties from the far left and far right. We investigate the hypothesis that individual differences in system justification—the psychological tendency to defend and justify the overarching social system—would be negatively associated with antiestablishment voting, even among citizens who would otherwise be inclined to support radical…
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic
The Covid‐19 pandemic brought unprecedented governmental restrictions to personal and political freedoms. This article investigates individual‐level differences in mass support for the restriction of civil liberties during the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Employing theories of affect and decision making, it assesses the extent to which different emotional reactions toward the pandemic influenced attitudes toward mobile phone surveillance …
Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right: The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential Election
The assumption that increasing diversity and economic hardship boost support for the far right is widespread, yet extant research comes up with contradictory findings. This article investigates the link between context and the far right by investigating the impact of immigration and unemployment on voting for Marine Le Pen in the first round of the 2017 French Presidential election. We match a large individual-level survey with contextual variabl…
Emotions and voting behavior in self-determination referendums: The case of New Caledonia in 2018
Psychological similarities and dissimilarities between left-wing and right-wing populists: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in France
Sociodemographic and Psychological Correlates of Compliance with the Covid-19 Public Health Measures in France
The COVID-19 disease was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, having since spread rapidly across the world. The infection and mortality rates of the disease have forced governments to implement a wave of public health measures. Depending on the context, these range from the implementation of simple hygienic rules to measures such as social distancing or lockdowns that cause major disruptions in citizens’ daily lives. The success of…
System Justification and Affective Responses to Terrorism: Evidence from the November 2015 Paris Attacks
A large stream of research has shown that emotional reactions have a powerful impact on political choices and decision‐making processes. Yet little is known about individual‐level differences in experiencing specific emotions in the light of threatening events. In this article, we argue that system justification, or the endorsement and bolstering of existing social and political arrangements, is positively associated with the experience of positi…
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties
Emotion, after a long period of inattention, began to attract greater scrutiny as a key driver of human behavior in the mid‐1980s. One approach that has achieved significant influence in political science is affective intelligence theory (AIT). We deploy AIT here to begin to understand the recent rise in support for right‐wing populist leaders around the globe. In particular, we focus on specific emotional appraisals on elections held at periods …
Anger Mediates the Effects of Fear on Support for the Far Right—A Rejoinder
We are grateful to John Jost for carefully engaging with our work and presenting a different interpretation of our findings on the effects of fear and anger stemming from the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks on the propensity to vote for the far right. Jost advances a model that holds that anger mediates the effect of fear on support for the far right. In this rejoinder, we respond to the issues he raises regarding our model specification, consid…
Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks
The conjecture that negative emotions underpin support for far‐right politics is common among pundits and scholars. The conventional account holds that authoritarian populists catalyze public anxiety about the changing social order and/or deteriorating national economic conditions, and this anxiety subsequently drives up support for the far right. We propose that while emotions do indeed play an independent causal role in support for far‐right pa…
Authoritarianism and political choice in France
How terrorism affects political attitudes: France in the aftermath of the 2015–2016 attacks
This study investigates what impact the terrorist attacks in Paris (2015) and Nice (2016) had on political attitudes in France. Drawing on nine cross-sectional surveys, it tests the premises of three major theories of opinion change that predict contrasting shifts in opinion among ordinary citizens according to their ideological position in the aftermath of terrorist attacks: the Reactive Liberals Hypothesis (RLH), the Terror Management Theory (T…
Terrorist events, emotional reactions, and political participation: The 2015 Paris attacks
The impact of terrorist events on attitude formation and change among mass publics has been well established in political research. Still, no individual-level study has examined the impact of terrorist attacks on political participation. This article aims to fill that gap. Drawing on theories of affect, it is predicted that fear stemming from a terrorist attack will increase motivation to seek out political information, yet will have a negative e…
Emotional Responses to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Addressing the Authoritarianism Puzzle
The finding that threat boosts the public's preferences for authoritarian policies has been well established in the research literature. Why this shift occurs remains open as the extant literature reports contradictory findings regarding the interaction of dispositions, such as conservatism and authoritarianism, with threat. One line of research argues that threat increases authoritarian preferences among those who are more prone to authoritarian…
A red letter day: Investigating the renaissance of the French far left in the 2012 presidential election
Economic hardship and extreme voting under the economic crisis: A comparison between Italy and Greece
Une des implications principales de la crise économique en Europe est l’érosion des partis dominants. Ceci est particulièrement évident en Europe du Sud, où la crise vient ébranler des systèmes partisans qui avaient parfois été stables pendant des décennies. Cet article vise à explorer un aspect de la théorie économique du vote qui n’a pas fait l’objet d’enquêtes approfondies : l’impact de la perception d’une dégradation des conditions de vie sur…
Climbing to the Rooftop, Falling off, yet Landing on One’s Feet (and Finding a Wallet on the Pavement): The Electoral Fate of the Greek Ecogreens (2004–15)
After a prolonged period of feeble electoral success, the Ecologists Greens (Ecogreens) managed to break into the Greek political landscape by electing one MEP in the 2009 European election. However, that electoral success proved to be quite short-lived, since in the years to follow the Greek Greens faded away. They were divided and faced the threat of political extinction, only to be resuscitated at the national election of 2015 by allying thems…
Green parties in hard times: The case of Eelv in the 2012 French presidential election
Europe-Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) has been part of the French party system for 30 years, securing parliamentary representation and being part of coalition government twice, from 1997 to 2002 and since May 2012, following the latest presidential and legislative elections. The recent electoral successes of the party at the 2008 local, 2009 European and 2010 regional elections have turned scholarly attention to the party’s strategy and electoral dyna…
The Greek Green voter: Environmentalism or Protest
The results achieved by the Ecologists-Greens (EG) between 2007 and 2009 represented the strongest ever electoral performance of any Greek ecological party. Was the rapid electoral rise of the Greek Green party a product of growing public concern about the environment after the destructive 2007 forest fires, or the result of a partisan dealignment in the Greek political system? A quantitative analysis of the demographic, behavioural, and attitudi…
Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks
The conjecture that negative emotions underpin support for far‐right politics is common among pundits and scholars. The conventional account holds that authoritarian populists catalyze public anxiety about the changing social order and/or deteriorating national economic conditions, and this anxiety subsequently drives up support for the far right. We propose that while emotions do indeed play an independent causal role in support for far‐right pa…
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties
Emotion, after a long period of inattention, began to attract greater scrutiny as a key driver of human behavior in the mid‐1980s. One approach that has achieved significant influence in political science is affective intelligence theory (AIT). We deploy AIT here to begin to understand the recent rise in support for right‐wing populist leaders around the globe. In particular, we focus on specific emotional appraisals on elections held at periods …
Emotional Responses to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Addressing the Authoritarianism Puzzle
The finding that threat boosts the public's preferences for authoritarian policies has been well established in the research literature. Why this shift occurs remains open as the extant literature reports contradictory findings regarding the interaction of dispositions, such as conservatism and authoritarianism, with threat. One line of research argues that threat increases authoritarian preferences among those who are more prone to authoritarian…
Sociodemographic and Psychological Correlates of Compliance with the Covid-19 Public Health Measures in France
The COVID-19 disease was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, having since spread rapidly across the world. The infection and mortality rates of the disease have forced governments to implement a wave of public health measures. Depending on the context, these range from the implementation of simple hygienic rules to measures such as social distancing or lockdowns that cause major disruptions in citizens’ daily lives. The success of…
How terrorism affects political attitudes: France in the aftermath of the 2015–2016 attacks
This study investigates what impact the terrorist attacks in Paris (2015) and Nice (2016) had on political attitudes in France. Drawing on nine cross-sectional surveys, it tests the premises of three major theories of opinion change that predict contrasting shifts in opinion among ordinary citizens according to their ideological position in the aftermath of terrorist attacks: the Reactive Liberals Hypothesis (RLH), the Terror Management Theory (T…
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic
The Covid‐19 pandemic brought unprecedented governmental restrictions to personal and political freedoms. This article investigates individual‐level differences in mass support for the restriction of civil liberties during the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Employing theories of affect and decision making, it assesses the extent to which different emotional reactions toward the pandemic influenced attitudes toward mobile phone surveillance …
Terrorist events, emotional reactions, and political participation: The 2015 Paris attacks
The impact of terrorist events on attitude formation and change among mass publics has been well established in political research. Still, no individual-level study has examined the impact of terrorist attacks on political participation. This article aims to fill that gap. Drawing on theories of affect, it is predicted that fear stemming from a terrorist attack will increase motivation to seek out political information, yet will have a negative e…
Authoritarianism and political choice in France
Psychological similarities and dissimilarities between left-wing and right-wing populists: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in France
System Justification and Affective Responses to Terrorism: Evidence from the November 2015 Paris Attacks
A large stream of research has shown that emotional reactions have a powerful impact on political choices and decision‐making processes. Yet little is known about individual‐level differences in experiencing specific emotions in the light of threatening events. In this article, we argue that system justification, or the endorsement and bolstering of existing social and political arrangements, is positively associated with the experience of positi…
Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right: The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential Election
The assumption that increasing diversity and economic hardship boost support for the far right is widespread, yet extant research comes up with contradictory findings. This article investigates the link between context and the far right by investigating the impact of immigration and unemployment on voting for Marine Le Pen in the first round of the 2017 French Presidential election. We match a large individual-level survey with contextual variabl…
The Greek Green voter: Environmentalism or Protest
The results achieved by the Ecologists-Greens (EG) between 2007 and 2009 represented the strongest ever electoral performance of any Greek ecological party. Was the rapid electoral rise of the Greek Green party a product of growing public concern about the environment after the destructive 2007 forest fires, or the result of a partisan dealignment in the Greek political system? A quantitative analysis of the demographic, behavioural, and attitudi…
Green parties in hard times: The case of Eelv in the 2012 French presidential election
Europe-Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) has been part of the French party system for 30 years, securing parliamentary representation and being part of coalition government twice, from 1997 to 2002 and since May 2012, following the latest presidential and legislative elections. The recent electoral successes of the party at the 2008 local, 2009 European and 2010 regional elections have turned scholarly attention to the party’s strategy and electoral dyna…
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Throughout Europe and North America, mainstream political parties have ceded electoral support to antiestablishment parties from the far left and far right. We investigate the hypothesis that individual differences in system justification—the psychological tendency to defend and justify the overarching social system—would be negatively associated with antiestablishment voting, even among citizens who would otherwise be inclined to support radical…
Economic hardship and extreme voting under the economic crisis: A comparison between Italy and Greece
Une des implications principales de la crise économique en Europe est l’érosion des partis dominants. Ceci est particulièrement évident en Europe du Sud, où la crise vient ébranler des systèmes partisans qui avaient parfois été stables pendant des décennies. Cet article vise à explorer un aspect de la théorie économique du vote qui n’a pas fait l’objet d’enquêtes approfondies : l’impact de la perception d’une dégradation des conditions de vie sur…
Anger Mediates the Effects of Fear on Support for the Far Right—A Rejoinder
We are grateful to John Jost for carefully engaging with our work and presenting a different interpretation of our findings on the effects of fear and anger stemming from the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks on the propensity to vote for the far right. Jost advances a model that holds that anger mediates the effect of fear on support for the far right. In this rejoinder, we respond to the issues he raises regarding our model specification, consid…
A red letter day: Investigating the renaissance of the French far left in the 2012 presidential election
Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise? Coethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France
The Greek Green voter: Environmentalism or Protest
The results achieved by the Ecologists-Greens (EG) between 2007 and 2009 represented the strongest ever electoral performance of any Greek ecological party. Was the rapid electoral rise of the Greek Green party a product of growing public concern about the environment after the destructive 2007 forest fires, or the result of a partisan dealignment in the Greek political system? A quantitative analysis of the demographic, behavioural, and attitudi…
Green parties in hard times: The case of Eelv in the 2012 French presidential election
Europe-Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) has been part of the French party system for 30 years, securing parliamentary representation and being part of coalition government twice, from 1997 to 2002 and since May 2012, following the latest presidential and legislative elections. The recent electoral successes of the party at the 2008 local, 2009 European and 2010 regional elections have turned scholarly attention to the party’s strategy and electoral dyna…
A red letter day: Investigating the renaissance of the French far left in the 2012 presidential election
Economic hardship and extreme voting under the economic crisis: A comparison between Italy and Greece
Une des implications principales de la crise économique en Europe est l’érosion des partis dominants. Ceci est particulièrement évident en Europe du Sud, où la crise vient ébranler des systèmes partisans qui avaient parfois été stables pendant des décennies. Cet article vise à explorer un aspect de la théorie économique du vote qui n’a pas fait l’objet d’enquêtes approfondies : l’impact de la perception d’une dégradation des conditions de vie sur…
Climbing to the Rooftop, Falling off, yet Landing on One’s Feet (and Finding a Wallet on the Pavement): The Electoral Fate of the Greek Ecogreens (2004–15)
After a prolonged period of feeble electoral success, the Ecologists Greens (Ecogreens) managed to break into the Greek political landscape by electing one MEP in the 2009 European election. However, that electoral success proved to be quite short-lived, since in the years to follow the Greek Greens faded away. They were divided and faced the threat of political extinction, only to be resuscitated at the national election of 2015 by allying thems…
Emotional Responses to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Addressing the Authoritarianism Puzzle
The finding that threat boosts the public's preferences for authoritarian policies has been well established in the research literature. Why this shift occurs remains open as the extant literature reports contradictory findings regarding the interaction of dispositions, such as conservatism and authoritarianism, with threat. One line of research argues that threat increases authoritarian preferences among those who are more prone to authoritarian…
Authoritarianism and political choice in France
How terrorism affects political attitudes: France in the aftermath of the 2015–2016 attacks
This study investigates what impact the terrorist attacks in Paris (2015) and Nice (2016) had on political attitudes in France. Drawing on nine cross-sectional surveys, it tests the premises of three major theories of opinion change that predict contrasting shifts in opinion among ordinary citizens according to their ideological position in the aftermath of terrorist attacks: the Reactive Liberals Hypothesis (RLH), the Terror Management Theory (T…
Terrorist events, emotional reactions, and political participation: The 2015 Paris attacks
The impact of terrorist events on attitude formation and change among mass publics has been well established in political research. Still, no individual-level study has examined the impact of terrorist attacks on political participation. This article aims to fill that gap. Drawing on theories of affect, it is predicted that fear stemming from a terrorist attack will increase motivation to seek out political information, yet will have a negative e…
System Justification and Affective Responses to Terrorism: Evidence from the November 2015 Paris Attacks
A large stream of research has shown that emotional reactions have a powerful impact on political choices and decision‐making processes. Yet little is known about individual‐level differences in experiencing specific emotions in the light of threatening events. In this article, we argue that system justification, or the endorsement and bolstering of existing social and political arrangements, is positively associated with the experience of positi…
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties
Emotion, after a long period of inattention, began to attract greater scrutiny as a key driver of human behavior in the mid‐1980s. One approach that has achieved significant influence in political science is affective intelligence theory (AIT). We deploy AIT here to begin to understand the recent rise in support for right‐wing populist leaders around the globe. In particular, we focus on specific emotional appraisals on elections held at periods …
Anger Mediates the Effects of Fear on Support for the Far Right—A Rejoinder
We are grateful to John Jost for carefully engaging with our work and presenting a different interpretation of our findings on the effects of fear and anger stemming from the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks on the propensity to vote for the far right. Jost advances a model that holds that anger mediates the effect of fear on support for the far right. In this rejoinder, we respond to the issues he raises regarding our model specification, consid…
Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks
The conjecture that negative emotions underpin support for far‐right politics is common among pundits and scholars. The conventional account holds that authoritarian populists catalyze public anxiety about the changing social order and/or deteriorating national economic conditions, and this anxiety subsequently drives up support for the far right. We propose that while emotions do indeed play an independent causal role in support for far‐right pa…
Psychological similarities and dissimilarities between left-wing and right-wing populists: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in France
Sociodemographic and Psychological Correlates of Compliance with the Covid-19 Public Health Measures in France
The COVID-19 disease was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, having since spread rapidly across the world. The infection and mortality rates of the disease have forced governments to implement a wave of public health measures. Depending on the context, these range from the implementation of simple hygienic rules to measures such as social distancing or lockdowns that cause major disruptions in citizens’ daily lives. The success of…
Emotions and voting behavior in self-determination referendums: The case of New Caledonia in 2018
Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right: The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential Election
The assumption that increasing diversity and economic hardship boost support for the far right is widespread, yet extant research comes up with contradictory findings. This article investigates the link between context and the far right by investigating the impact of immigration and unemployment on voting for Marine Le Pen in the first round of the 2017 French Presidential election. We match a large individual-level survey with contextual variabl…
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Throughout Europe and North America, mainstream political parties have ceded electoral support to antiestablishment parties from the far left and far right. We investigate the hypothesis that individual differences in system justification—the psychological tendency to defend and justify the overarching social system—would be negatively associated with antiestablishment voting, even among citizens who would otherwise be inclined to support radical…
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic
The Covid‐19 pandemic brought unprecedented governmental restrictions to personal and political freedoms. This article investigates individual‐level differences in mass support for the restriction of civil liberties during the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Employing theories of affect and decision making, it assesses the extent to which different emotional reactions toward the pandemic influenced attitudes toward mobile phone surveillance …
Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise? Coethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France
Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice: A Longitudinal Analysis of the British Electorate
The nature, measurement, and correlates of the psychological trait of authoritarianism have spurred an intense and long-lasting debate in political psychology, dating back to the 1950s. This article aims at advancing extant knowledge on authoritarianism—measured here by child-rearing items—in two ways. First, by investigating the impact of authoritarianism on political attitudes and voting, net of individual heterogeneity, thus improving causal e…
Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain
Research has found that asset accumulation is associated with vote preferences, with those with a high number and value of assets being more likely to vote for centre-right parties. Yet the bulk of this literature often falls short of accounting for alternative mechanisms that could be driving this relationship. In this letter, we investigate the association between patrimony and the vote longitudinally, assessing the effects of within-person cha…
Immigrants' attitudes towards immigration: Convergence Towards Majority Views or Ethnoracial Polarization
Political science (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works)