Hugo Ferrinho Lopes
- FLAD Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
I study how people act within democratic institutions and how their actions change those institutions in return. My work follows voters, party members and young people as they decide whom to support, when to push back, and how to make their way into politics.

Selected research
Working paper
Finding the Sweet Spot: How strategic are party and youth wing members in leadership elections?
ECPR Best Paper Prize 2025 on Southern European Politics
European Journal of Political Research · 2025
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings
West European Politics · 2025
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections
ICS-ULisbon ERICS Prize
Regulation & Governance · 2026
Measuring and Explaining the Robustness of Party Ethics Self-Regulation