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I am an SNSF Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne.

I studied at the Universities of Rome “Sapienza” (BA, MSc), Leiden (MA), Oxford and Siena (PhD). After my doctoral studies, I held a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Fiesole, and an Ambizione Fellowship at the University of Lucerne.

My academic interests center on the interplay between voters, political parties and leaders in democratic elections. My current research project, funded by an Eccellenza Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2020-2024), focuses on affective polarization and its electoral consequences, with a particular emphasis on negative voting in comparative and longitudinal perspective.

I currently serve in the steering committees of the Consortium of National Election Studies (CNES), and the ECPR Research Network on Voting Advice Applications (VAAs).

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Recent publications

Garzia, D. & Ferreira da Silva, F. (2024). Negative Voting in Comparative Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Reiljan, A., Garzia, D., Ferreira da Silva, F. & Trechsel, A. (2024). Patterns of affective polarization in the democratic world: Comparing the polarized feelings towards parties and leaders. American Political Science Review, 118: 654-670.

Garzia, D. & Ferreira da Silva, F. (2024). In-party love, out-party hate, and affective polarization in twelve established democracies, 1961-2022. Public Opinion Quarterly [link to pre-print]

Ferreira da Silva, F. & Garzia, D. (2024). Affective polarization towards parties and leaders, and electoral participation in 13 parliamentary democracies, 1980-2019. Public Opinion Quarterly
[link to pre-print]