Research

Below, you will find my publications and current research. For questions on any specific paper, feel free to email me.

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2025. “Media Influence and Spatial Voting: The Role of Perceived Party Positions.” Political Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10031-9 

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2024. “Parties Influence Public Opinion Far Beyond their Partisans: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2024.2395351

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. “Measuring Online Media Ideology with Large Language Models and ‘Multi-Cue Classification.’” Political Science Research and Methods. Under Peer Review.

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. “Mapping Media Markets and Ideological Gaps with Machine Learning and Large Language Models.” Under Editor Review.

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. “‘What Kind of Bias Do I Want?’ How Cross-Pressured Voters Select Political Media.” https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZCXPJ

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. “Why Cross-Pressured Voters Are Always Right: Media and Mediators.” https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3GKAE

Berz, Jan and Lucas Paulo da Silva. “Technocratic Cabinets and Electoral Accountability.” 

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. “Introducing the Random English-language Article Dataset (READ): One Million Randomly-Selected and Classified Online Media Articles.” 

da Silva, Lucas Paulo and Jan Berz. “Legislative Speeches, Voter Heuristics, and Technocratic Prime Ministers.”