Publications
A complete list of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. The full list is also available on Google Scholar and is maintained as a BibTeX file you can import into Zotero or similar.
Working papers
Working paper
Nezi, R., & D’Andrea, G. Bridging the gap: Affective polarisation and gender dynamics in European politics. Working paper.
Using European Election Study 2024 data across all 27 EU member states, we show that men and women display equivalent levels of affective polarisation — but reach them through different pathways. Cultural attitudes (gender traditionalism, opposition to same-sex marriage) generate partisan animosity more directly among women, independently of party identification, while for men the same attitudes operate primarily through partisan sorting.
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Nezi, R., Beloshitzkaya, V. & Lefkofridi, Z. The equality paradox: Relative deprivation, relative empowerment, and diverging gender attitudes across generations.
Using Hierarchical Age–Period–Cohort models on WVS/EVS data (1990–2022) across 30 countries in Europe, North America, and Oceania, we show that younger men hold more traditional attitudes towards gender equality than Baby Boomers, while younger women maintain or strengthen egalitarian views. We introduce relative empowerment as the symmetrical counterpart to relative deprivation to explain why the same structural conditions activate opposite psychological responses by gender.
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Nezi, R., Lefkofridi, Z., & Ceron, M. Gender gaps in the multilevel EU system. Working paper.
Drawing on voting behaviour in national and European Parliament elections across EU member states from 2004 to 2024 — approximately 132,000 voters and 300 political parties — we develop a theory of cross-dimensional realignment. Rather than converging towards a stable modern gender gap, member states experience repeated transitions between modern and traditional patterns. Gendered alignments are reshaped by which dimension — economic, cultural, or EU integration — structures competition in each election, with broadly similar dynamics across national and European arenas.
2026
2026
Nezi, R., & Lefkofridi, Z. Multidimensional representation in the EU multilevel polity: The role of congruence in vote-switching. Politics and Governance, 14.
2025
2025
Germann, M., Mendez, F., Wheatley, J., Djouvas, C., Nezi, R., & Wall, M. Improving issue representation with candidate-level voting advice applications. European Journal of Political Research, 64(4), 2132–2145.
2025
Nezi, R., & Konstantinidis, I. 1977: The transition elections. In Political Campaigning and Communication (pp. 23–30). Springer.
2025
Morales, L., Pamies, C., Robert, M.-V., Ceron, M., Lefkofridi, Z., & Nezi, R. Report on variation in political trust across policy areas of climate change, migration and gender. ActEU Deliverable 2.4, Zenodo.
2024
2024
Nezi, R., & Lefkofridi, Z. Still second-order in 2024?: National, nationalist and personalised issues in the Greek EP election. Politique européenne, 86(4), 122–129.
2024
Nezi, R., & Lefkofridi, Z. Back to the future: New Democracy’s dominance and the left’s fragmentation in the June 2023 Greek parliamentary election. South European Society & Politics, 29(3), 385–403.
2024
Nezi, R. A tale of two crises: Affective polarisation in Greece. Frontiers in Political Science, 6, 1256199.
2024
Nezi, R., & Romero Vidal, X. Editorial: The politics of the pandemic. Frontiers in Political Science, 6, 1459169.
2023
2023
Nezi, R., Karyotis, G., & Makropoulos, I. Culture wars? Assessing the impact of affective polarisation on cultural battles. LSE Hellenic Observatory Paper No. 190.
2023
Foa, R. S., & Nezi, R. Piercing the fog of war: Measuring Russian public opinion via online search data. Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
2023
Nezi, R. After the crisis: EU issue voting in Greece. In Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (pp. 231–250). Springer.
2023
Nezi, R. Greece: Politicisation in media, parliamentary debates, and voting in 2019. In M. Costa Lobo (Ed.), EU politicisation and its consequences for voting: Media, parliamentary debates and electoral behaviour in Europe, 2002–2020. Routledge.
2021
2021
Wegscheider, C., & Nezi, R. Who belongs to the people? The societal boundaries of national and European notions of citizenship. In Democratic Citizenship in Flux (pp. 173–192). transcript-Verlag.
2021
Busemeyer, M. R., Abrassart, A., & Nezi, R. Beyond positive and negative: New perspectives on feedback effects in public opinion on the welfare state. British Journal of Political Science, 51(1), 137–162.
2020
2020
Lefkofridi, Z., & Nezi, R. Responsibility versus responsiveness… to whom? A theory of party behavior. Party Politics, 26(3), 334–346.
2019
2019
Lefkofridi, Z., & Nezi, R. Between representation and responsibility. In I. Balabanidis (Ed.), SYRIZA: A party in transformation — from protest to government. Themelio.
2019
Georgiadou, V., Kafe, A., Nezi, S., & Pieridis, C. Plebiscitarian spirit in the square: Key characteristics of the Greek indignants. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 32(1), 43–59.
2018
2018
Busemeyer, M. R., Garritzmann, J. L., Neimanns, E., & Nezi, R. Investing in education in Europe: Evidence from a new survey of public opinion. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(1), 34–54.
2018
Schulze, H., Nezi, R., & Mochmann, I. C. EUROLAB Annual Report 2017. SSOAR — GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
2015
2015
Gemenis, K., & Nezi, R. Government–opposition dynamics during the economic crisis in Greece. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 21(1), 14–34.
2014
2014
Nezi, R., & Katsanidou, A. From valence to position: Economic voting in extraordinary conditions. Acta Politica, 49(4), 413–430.
2012
2012
Nezi, R. Economic voting under the economic crisis: Evidence from Greece. Electoral Studies, 31(3), 498–505.
Earlier
2011
Kafe, A., Nezi, R., & Pieridis, C. Who abstains and why: An analysis of the 2010 Greek local election. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 27, 25–54.
2010
Nezi, R., Sotiropoulos, D. A., & Toka, P. Attitudes of Greek parliamentarians towards European and national identity, representation, and scope of governance. South European Society and Politics, 15(1), 79–96.
2009
Nezi, S., Sotiropoulos, D. A., & Toka, P. Explaining the attitudes of parliamentarians towards European integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia: Party affiliation, `left–right’ self-placement or country origin? Europe-Asia Studies, 61(6), 1003–1020.
2008
Sotiropoulos, D. A., Nezi, R., & Toka, P. Explaining the attitudes of Greek parliamentary and business elites towards the European Union. Greek Political Science Review, 32, 25–41.