Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at ICS, University of Lisbon. My doctoral studies have benefited from research stays at the EUI and IPP-CSIC.

I study how intra-party divisions can have both negative and positive effects on party and voter behavior. In a parallel stream of research, I examine the pathways through which youth people gain access to and shape political institutions—with a special emphasis on party youth wings as “ideological watchdogs” within parties.

Methodologically, I specialize in designing and conducting randomized field and survey experiments with party elites and voters, both as partners and subjects, to study these topics in Western democracies. I am also interested in quasi-experimental methods for causal inference.

My work has been published in EJPR, WEP, JEPOP, and IPSR, among other outlets.

I am on the academic job market.

Feel free to reach out to me at hugo.lopes@ics.ulisboa.pt.