2026 Elias Dinas: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	29	1281	1160	37	34	126	3831

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Political Science

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Overview

Elias Dinas is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research spans primarily within the social sciences, focusing extensively on political science and related interdisciplinary fields.

The main fields of study for Dinas include:

Social Sciences

Within this broad area, their subfields of study encompass:

Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Demography
Statistics and Probability
Cultural Studies

Dinas's scholarly work addresses several key topics:

Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Social and Cultural Dynamics
European Union Policy and Governance
Political Conflict and Governance

Their recent papers include the following:

Family History and Attitudes toward Out-Groups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis, 2020, The Journal of Politics
Social Norm Change, Political Symbols, and Expression of Stigmatized Preferences, 2023, The Journal of Politics

Dinas frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, notably:

Vicente Valentim
Francesco Colombo
Sergi Martínez
Ignacio Jurado
Nikitas Konstantinidis

The primary venues for their publications include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Harvard Dataverse
European Journal of Political Research
The Journal of Politics
British Journal of Political Science

Best Publications

Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile

Dominik Hangartner;Elias Dinas;Moritz Marbach;Konstantinos Matakos

342
Citations
Waking up the Golden Dawn : does exposure to the refugee crisis increase support for extreme-right parties?

Elias Dinas;Konstantinos Matakos;Dimitrios Xefteris;Dominik Hangartner

316
Citations
Measuring Parties' Ideological Positions with Manifesto Data a Critical Evaluation of the Competing Methods

Elias Dinas;Konstantinos Gemenis

229
Citations
Opening “Openness to Change” Political Events and the Increased Sensitivity of Young Adults

Elias Dinas

149
Citations
Does Choice Bring Loyalty? Electoral Participation and the Development of Party Identification

Elias Dinas

143
Citations
The Formation of Voting Habits

Elias Dinas

143
Citations
Why Does the Apple Fall Far from the Tree? How Early Political Socialization Prompts Parent-Child Dissimilarity

Elias Dinas

140
Citations
From dusk to dawn Local party organization and party success of right-wing extremism

Elias Dinas;Vassiliki Georgiadou;Iannis Konstantinidis;Lamprini Rori

128
Citations
The 2012 Greek Parliamentary Elections: Fear and Loathing in the Polls

Elias Dinas;Lamprini Rori

125
Citations
Systemic polarisation and spatial voting

Sergi Pardos-Prado;Elias Dinas

103
Citations
The Ideological Shadow of Authoritarianism

Elias Dinas;Elias Dinas;Ksenia Northmore-Ball

96
Citations
Crime Story: The role of crime and immigration in the anti-immigration vote

Elias Dinas;Joost van Spanje

93
Citations
Noncooperation by Popular Vote: Expectations, Foreign Intervention, and the Vote in the 2015 Greek Bailout Referendum

Stefanie Walter;Elias Dinas;Ignacio Jurado;Nikitas Konstantinidis

90
Citations
Left and Right in the Basque Country and Catalonia: The Meaning of Ideology in a Nationalist Context

Elias Dinas

78
Citations
A look into the mirror: Preferences, representation and electoral participation

Elias Dinas;Alexander H. Trechsel;Alexander H. Trechsel;Kristjan Vassil

68
Citations
Family History and Attitudes toward Out-Groups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis

Elias Dinas;Vasiliki Fouka;Alain Schläpfer

60
Citations
Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece

Konstantinos Gemenis;Elias Dinas

57
Citations
A categorization theory of spatial voting: how the center divides the political space

Jørgen Bølstad;Elias Dinas

49
Citations
Age-Period-Cohort analysis: A design-based approach

Elias Dinas;Laura Stoker

46
Citations
Staying in the First League: Parliamentary Representation and the Electoral Success of Small Parties*

Elias Dinas;Pedro Riera;Nasos Roussias

45
Citations
Keeping the euro at any cost? Explaining attitudes toward the euro-austerity trade-off in Greece:

Ignacio Jurado;Ignacio Jurado;Stefanie Walter;Stefanie Walter;Nikitas Konstantinidis;Nikitas Konstantinidis;Elias Dinas

39
Citations
Tactical Voting and Party Preferences: A Test of Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Jørgen Bølstad;Elias Dinas;Pedro Riera

35
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominik Hangartner ETH Zurich

Joost van Spanje Royal Holloway University of London

Alexander H. Trechsel University of Lucerne

Mark N. Franklin European University Institute

External Links

Personal website of Elias Dinas

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