Research

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, Thomas Schincariol, and Morgan Wack. 2026. "Football Empires: Simulating the Effects of Colonialism on the 2026 World Cup." SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6885543

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2026. "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. 2026. "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. 2026. "'What Kind of Bias Do I Want?' How Cross-Pressured Voters Select Political Media." Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9096787/v1

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2026. "Why Cross-Pressured Voters Are Always Right: Media and Mediators." OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/cyhsm_v2

Wack, Morgan, Daniel Vogler, Manuel Arrigo, Christian Pipal, and Lucas Paulo da Silva. 2026. "Who Sees Politics in Sports? Norm Endorsement and Partisan Judgments from the 2026 World Cup." OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/gtjp4_v1

da Silva, Lucas Paulo and Jungmin Han. 2026. "Which World Gets Covered? Media Ideology and the Geography of Foreign News." SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7211478

Berz, Jan and Lucas Paulo da Silva. 2026. "Technocrats in Government and Electoral Accountability."

da Silva, Lucas Paulo and Jan Berz. 2026. "How do Parliaments Affect Retrospective Voting after Technocratic-Led Governments?"

da Silva, Lucas Paulo. 2025. “Ideological Media Markets, Cross-Pressured Voters, and Spatial Voting: A Computational and Experimental Approach.” TARA. https://hdl.handle.net/2262/112311

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"