Dr. Alexander Held
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Held, Alexander, Am I Eligible to Register? Registration Rules, Eligibility Uncertainty, and Youth Voter Turnout, Political Behavior, 2025, p1-20
Held, Alexander, and Pauliina Patana, Rents, Refugees, and the Populist Radical Right, Research and Politics, 10, (2), 2023, p1-9
Held, Alexander, The Effect of Socioeconomic Policy and Competence Messages on Populist Radical Right Support: Evidence from a Pre-Election Survey Experiment, Electoral Studies, 2023, p102619
Held, Alexander, Compulsory Voting, Turnout, and Support for Left-Wing Parties: The Case of Australia, Electoral Studies, 81, 2023, p102569
Kam, Christopher, Anthony M. Bertelli, and Alexander Held, The Electoral System, the Party System and Accountability in Parliamentary Government, American Political Science Review, 114, (3), 2020, p744-760
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
Reviewer for American Political Science Review (x2), Bloomsbury Publishing, Electoral Studies, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Politics (x3), Oxford University Press, Political Behavior (x3), Political Science Research and Methods, SAGE
Chair and discussant of panel on Polarization and Populism, 2021 European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Meeting
Discussant of panel on Political Populism, 2024 European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Meeting, Cologne, Germany
Paper presenter at 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, USA
Paper presenter at 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA
Paper presenter at 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19), 2021, 2024 European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Meeting
Paper presentation at Yale University (2018, American Politics and Public Policy Workshop), University of Mannheim (2019, Chair of Political Sociology), Trinity College Dublin (2019, Department of Political Science), University of Oxford (2019, Nuffield College)
Poster presentation at the 2019 CESS Experimental Political Science Conference, New York University
Awards and Honours
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin
Research Boost Programme 2024 Award
TRiSS Academic Research Fellowship
Enterprise Ireland ERC Support Scheme
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin
Enterprise Ireland ERC Support Scheme
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin
Charlemont Grant, Royal Irish Academy
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin
FAHSS Visiting Professorships Fund, Trinity College Dublin (declined due to COVID-19)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, BES and Nuffield College, University of Oxford (declined)
Postdoctoral Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, ETH Zurich (declined)
Fox International Fellowship, Yale University
APSA Travel Award
Institute for European Studies (IES) Travel Award, University of British Columbia
Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Grant, University of British Columbia
Departmental Dissertation Research Fund, University of British Columbia
Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) Grant, University of British Columbia
Clifford, C. Clogg Scholarship, ICPSR Summer Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia
Baden-Wuerttemberg Scholarship, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, Germany
Memberships
American Political Science Association (APSA)
European Political Science Association (EPSA)
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)