Maria-Henriete Pozsar

Maria-Henriete Pozsar is a Researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI), with a cohort year of 2022. She is working under the supervision of Professor Elias Dinas, who holds the Swiss Chair in Federalism, Democracy and International Governance.

Her research spans several interconnected fields within political science:

• Political behaviour (parties, elections, voting)
• Social media
• American politics
• Far-right politics
• Social movements
• Social psychology

Pozsar's doctoral work examines "Moralized Legislation and The Politics of Exclusion," investigating how moral frameworks are employed in legislative processes and lead to political exclusion. Her research contributes to contemporary debates about political polarization and exclusionary politics in democratic systems.

As a Romanian national, she is part of EUI's diverse international academic community, collaborating with other researchers in Professor Dinas's supervision group including Ioannis Mastrominas, Nini Petriashvili, and Lucía Doménech Collado.