Dr. Alexander Held

• 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, p744-760Journal Article, 2020, DOI
• Held, Alexander, Compulsory Voting, Turnout, and Support for Left-Wing Parties: The Case of Australia, Electoral Studies, 81, 2023, p102569Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Held, Alexander, and Pauliina Patana, Rents, Refugees, and the Populist Radical Right, Research and Politics, 10, (2), 2023, p1-9Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Held, Alexander, Am I Eligible to Register? Registration Rules, Eligibility Uncertainty, and Youth Voter Turnout, Political Behavior, 47, (4), 2025, p1551 - 1570Journal Article, 2025, DOI
• 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, p102619Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Patana, Pauliina, and Alexander Held, Against the Wind: The Radical Right, Renewable Energy, and the Politics of the Green Transition, Journal of Politics, 2026, p1-36Journal Article, 2026, DOI

Politics,

• Postdoctoral Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, ETH Zurich (declined) 31/05/2019
• Enterprise Ireland ERC Support Scheme 08/04/2024
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, Germany 01/05/2003
• Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Award, Irish Research Council / Research Ireland 01/09/2025
• Charlemont Grant, Royal Irish Academy 16/02/2021
• Departmental Dissertation Research Fund, University of British Columbia 30/06/2018
• Research Boost Programme 2024 Award 08/07/2024
• Institute for European Studies (IES) Travel Award, University of British Columbia 15/09/2018
• Fox International Fellowship, Yale University 15/04/2018
• Enterprise Ireland ERC Support Scheme 26/04/2022
• Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) Grant, University of British Columbia 2017, 2018
• Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin 30/01/2020
• APSA Travel Award 2018, 2019
• Clifford, C. Clogg Scholarship, ICPSR Summer Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 15/05/2016
• Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin 10/02/2025
• Baden-Wuerttemberg Scholarship, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany 01/06/2005
• Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin 02/02/2024
• Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Grant, University of British Columbia 15/03/2018
• Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia 15/02/2013
• Enterprise Ireland ERC Support Scheme 14/04/2026
• FAHSS Visiting Professorships Fund, Trinity College Dublin (declined due to COVID-19) 08/01/2020
• Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin 28/01/2022
• TRiSS Academic Research Fellowship 04/07/2024
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, BES and Nuffield College, University of Oxford (declined) 30/01/2019

• Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) present
• American Political Science Association (APSA) present
• European Political Science Association (EPSA) present

• Discussant of panel on Political Populism, 2024 European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Meeting, Cologne, Germany July 2024
• Reviewer for American Political Science Review (2x), Bloomsbury Publishing, Electoral Studies (3x), Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Politics (4x), Oxford University Press, Political Behavior (3x), Political Science Research and Methods, SAGE, Socio-Economic Review 2020 - present
• Paper presenter at 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026 [scheduled] American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, USA 2018 - present
• Chair and discussant of panel on Polarization and Populism, 2021 European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Meeting June 2021
• Poster presentation at the 2019 CESS Experimental Political Science Conference, New York University 2019
• 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), European University Institute (2026, Comparative Politics Seminar Series) 2018 - present
• Paper presenter at 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA 2018 - present
• Paper presenter at 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19), 2021, 2024 European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Meeting 2020 - present