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Overview

Erik Bleich is affiliated with Middlebury College in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with significant focus on sociology and political science, political science and international relations, as well as communication. Their work also touches on artificial intelligence within the context of social sciences.

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with multiple facets of social and political issues. Notable papers include:

  • Afro-Pessimist or Africa Rising? US Newspaper Coverage of Africa, 1994-2018, 2020, Journalism Studies
  • The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications, 2021, Perspectives on Politics
  • Atheism in US and UK Newspapers: Negativity about Non-Belief and Non-Believers, 2021, Religions
  • Chronic frames of social inequality: How mainstream media frame race, gender, and wealth inequality, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The advantages of lexicon-based sentiment analysis in an age of machine learning, 2025, PLoS ONE

Bleich frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • A. Maurits van der Veen
  • Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
  • Ben W. Ansell
  • Suzanna Linn
  • Jillian Schwedler

The venues where Bleich has published most often include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Political Science Today
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Religions
  • PLoS ONE

Their research covers a range of topics related to media and politics, political participation, and computational methods. Key topics of focus are:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Computational and Text Analysis Methods
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research

Within their career, Bleich's work illustrates a multidisciplinary approach combining political science, communication studies, and computational techniques to analyze social and political phenomena as represented in media and public discourse.

Best Publications

  • Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s

    Erik Bleich

  • What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept:

    Erik Bleich

  • Integrating Ideas into Policy-Making Analysis: Frames and Race Policies in Britain and France

    Erik Bleich

  • Migrants, Minorities, and the Media: Information, representations, and participation in the public sphere

    Erik Bleich;Irene Bloemraad;Els de Graauw

  • Media Portrayals of Minorities: Muslims in British Newspaper Headlines, 2001–2012

    Erik Bleich;Hannah Stonebraker;Hasher Nisar;Rana Abdelhamid

  • The Freedom to Be Racist?: How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism

    Erik Bleich

  • The legacies of history? Colonization and immigrant integration in Britain and France

    Erik Bleich

  • The Rise of Hate Speech and Hate Crime Laws in Liberal Democracies

    Erik Bleich

  • Defining and Researching Islamophobia

    Erik Bleich

  • From International Ideas to Domestic Policies: Educational Multiculturalism in England and France

    Erik Bleich

  • Where do Muslims stand on ethno-racial hierarchies in Britain and France? Evidence from public opinion surveys, 1988–2008

    Erik Bleich

  • The Danish Cartoon Affair: Free Speech, Racism, Islamism, and Integration

    Tariq Modood;Randall Hansen;Erik Bleich;Brendan O'Leary

  • Antiracism without Races: Politics and Policy in a "Color-Blind" State

    Erik Bleich

  • Capital Mobility and Coalitional Politics: Authoritarian Regimes and Economic Adjustment in Southeast Asia

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West: Introduction

    Erik Bleich

  • Hate Crime Policy in Western Europe: Responding to Racist Violence in Britain, Germany, and France

    Erik Bleich

  • Freedom of Expression versus Racist Hate Speech: Explaining Differences Between High Court Regulations in the USA and Europe

    Erik Bleich

  • Race Politics in Britain and France: Contents

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  • State Responses to ‘Muslim’ Violence: A Comparison of Six West European Countries

    Erik Bleich

  • Essays on secularism and multiculturalism

    Erik Bleich

  • What Makes Muslims Feel French

    Rahsaan Maxwell;Erik Bleich

  • The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications

    Alan M. Jacobs;Tim Büthe;Tim Büthe;Ana Arjona;Leonardo R. Arriola

  • What factors best explain national identification among Muslim adolescents? Evidence from four European countries

    Lars Leszczensky;Rahsaan Maxwell;Erik Bleich

  • The Freedom to Be Racist

    Erik Bleich

  • Social Research and ‘Race’ Policy Framing in Britain and France:

    Erik Bleich

  • Free speech on campus

    Erik Bleich

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Vis
Barbara Vis Utrecht University
Jonas Tallberg
Jonas Tallberg Stockholm University
Zachary Elkins
Zachary Elkins The University of Texas at Austin
Mark A. Pollack
Mark A. Pollack Temple University
Dustin Tingley
Dustin Tingley Harvard University
Randall Hansen
Randall Hansen University of Toronto
Joseph H. Carens
Joseph H. Carens University of Toronto
Irene Bloemraad
Irene Bloemraad University of British Columbia
Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood University of Bristol
Brendan O'Leary
Brendan O'Leary University of Pennsylvania

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