Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at ICS, University of Lisbon. In September 2025, I join the faculty at Iscte–IUL and EEG-UMinho. I have been a visiting doctoral researcher at the EUI and IPP-CSIC, and have taught at UBI and ULusófona.

I study how party members and youth wings respond when they (dis)agree with their leaders, and how it affects party cohesion and change, political behavior, and representation more broadly.

Methodologically, I design and conduct field and survey experiments with party elites and members, both as partners and subjects. I am also interested in quasi-experimental methods for causal inference.

My work has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, and International Political Science Review, among other outlets.

I am currently on the academic job market.

Feel free to get in touch at hugo.lopes@ics.ulisboa.pt.