Elena Cossu
Post-doctorante - Projet AUTHLIB
Elena Cossu is a researcher specializing in data science and quasi-experimental methods in political science. Her work focuses on measuring democratic backsliding in Europe.
Currently, she is part of the AUTHLIB project at Sciences Po, where she uses natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze illiberalism in Europe by examining political texts such as social media posts and public speeches.
She earned her PhD at Corvinus University, with co-supervision from University College London, as part of the European Commission MSCA FATIGUE project . Her dissertation explored the conceptualization of policies tied to populist rhetoric in Europe and assessed their impacts in Hungary using NLP and quasi-experimental approaches.
Previous positions
Senior Policy Evaluation Researcher - Policy Research Centre, National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), London
Early Stage Researcher - FATIGUE Project, European Commission MSCA , Budapest and London
Education
Development Economics Seminar, 2018/2019 academic year - second semester (Master’s level course), Corvinus University of Budapest
Awards
ACRI Young Investigator Training Program (YITP – ECOMOD 2021), Università Milano Bicocca, Center for European Studies (CefES-DEMS)
Publications
Cossu E. (2024). Application of Natural Language Processing to the Electoral Manifestos of Parties Characterised by Populist Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Journal of Society and Politics. (Forthcoming)
Cossu, E. (2023a). Clustering and Analysing Relevant Policy Dimensions of Populist, Left-Wing, Centrist, and Right-Wing Parties across Europe. Central European Journal of Public Policy, 17(1), 41–54. https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp- 2023-0004 (GitHub Code)
Cossu, E. (2023b). The Economic Effect Of Populist Rhetoric In Hungary. Online Journal of Modelling the New Europe, 41, 105–138. https://doi.org/10.24193/ OJMNE.2023.41.05
Cossu, E. (2021). Understanding Contemporary Populism Through the Latin American Experience. AARMS – Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science, 20(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.32565/ aarms.2021.3.4
Borges Aguiar G. M., & Cossu E. (2019). The Gravity Model for Trade Theory. Köz-gazdaság, 14(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.14267/ RETP2019.03.25
