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Elena Cossu is an Associate Researcher at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po, where she contributes to the AUTHLIB project. Her research integrates data science and political science to analyze democratic backsliding and illiberalism in Europe through natural language processing of political texts.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of political science, data science, and computational methods. She specializes in using NLP and quasi-experimental techniques to study populist rhetoric, policy impacts, and ideological shifts in European politics. Her work emphasizes empirical measurement of democratic erosion and comparative analysis of political discourse across parties and regions.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward computational analysis of political texts, particularly electoral manifestos and public speeches, with a regional focus on Central and Eastern Europe. She applies clustering, text mining, and econometric methods to assess the ideological positioning and economic consequences of populist movements.
Scientific Awards:
- ACRI Young Investigator Training Program (YITP – ECOMOD 2021), Università Milano Bicocca, Center for European Studies (CefES-DEMS)
She has taught master's level courses at Sciences Po and Corvinus University, including Policy Analysis and Evaluation, Democracy in Europe, and seminars on development economics and international organizations. Her teaching reflects her interdisciplinary expertise in policy and political economy. She was previously a Senior Policy Evaluation Researcher at the National Center for Social Research (NatCen) in London and an Early Stage Researcher in the European Commission’s FATIGUE project.
She is actively involved in the AUTHLIB project at Sciences Po, a research initiative focused on understanding the dynamics of illiberalism in Europe through digital and textual analysis of political communication.
