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Benedetta Giocoli

DPhil in Politics

I am a first-year DPhil student in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, funded by Nuffield College and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

My DPhil project — supervised by Professor James Tilley — examines the formation of political attitudes in adolescence and early adulthood through a process of socialization within the family. Specifically, it aims to understand the mechanisms through which parents influence their children's political development and how political socialization within the family is affected by wider social, economic, and political environments.

More broadly, I am interested in questions related to attitude and preference formation, voting behaviour, political trust, democratic norms, inequality and redistribution, and radical right parties. I also have a methodological interest in causal inference with observational data. 

 Prior to starting the DPhil, I obtained an MPhil in Comparative Government (Distinction, MPhil Thesis Prize) from Lincoln College, University of Oxford and a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with Social Data Science (First Class Honours, Dean's List) from University College London. For more information, please visit my personal website

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