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. 2026. “Media Influence and Spatial Voting: The Role of Perceived Party Positions.” Political Behavior 48: 299-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10031-9 

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2026. “Parties Influence Public Opinion Far Beyond their Partisans: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 1: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2024.2395351

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2026. “Ideological Media Markets, Cross-Pressured Voters, and Spatial Voting: A Computational and Experimental Approach.” TARA. https://hdl.handle.net/2262/112311

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. "Measuring Online Media Ideology with Large Language Models and 'Multi-Cue Classification.'" OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zmtqp_v1

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. "Online Media Outlets Struggle to Represent Audiences in a Two-Dimensional Ideological Landscape." OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/mzxab_v2

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. "'What Kind of Bias Do I Want?' How Cross-Pressured Voters Select Political Media." OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/6rxve_v3

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. "Why Cross-Pressured Voters Are Always Right: Media and Mediators." OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/cyhsm_v2

Berz, Jan and Lucas Paulo da Silva. "Technocrats in Government and Electoral Accountability."

da Silva, Lucas Paulo and Jungmin Han. "Which World Gets Covered? Media Ideology and the Geography of Foreign News"

da Silva, Lucas Paulo and Jan Berz. "How do Parliaments Affect Retrospective Voting after Technocratic-Led Governments?"

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

Several papers related to Anne Schulz's SNSF-funded project: "Amidst Abundant Negativity. Studying Negative News, its Social and Political Effects, and Solutions for Sustainable Consumption Across Time and Across Countries"