My doctoral research examines the role of public pressure in the European Union's response to democratic backsliding. While existing research has largely focused on the institutional and partisan constraints facing the EU, I approach the problem from a behavioral perspective, asking when and how public opinion changes the incentives of both European institutions and national governments. A central argument of my research is that the visibility of conflict over democratic norms matters. When disputes between the EU and national governments become politically salient, citizens become more capable of observing and responding to the behavior of political actors. My research examines how this public pressure can alter the incentives surrounding democratic enforcement and accountability.

A growing strand of my research examines an earlier stage of political decision-making: how people choose what information to acquire in the first place. Political behavior research often studies how individuals respond to information presented to them, but in real political environments people selectively seek out, ignore, and prioritize information before forming judgments.
I am interested in whether these choices systematically shape political evaluations and reproduce existing biases. My current research uses information-choice experiments to study these processes in different political contexts, including gender bias in candidate evaluation and the role of familiar national cues when voters evaluate European-level political alternatives.
This agenda connects questions of political behavior, representation, and information processing while allowing me to study not only how people react to political information, but how the information environments underlying their decisions are constructed through their own choices.

Gender and politics forms a related strand of my research. I am particularly interested in how gender stereotypes interact with information acquisition and political evaluation, including whether voters seek different information about male and female candidates and whether these choices contribute to gender bias. I also study how the salience of traditional gender norms shapes broader political attitudes and judgments. Across these research areas, I use a combination of survey and field experiments, quantitative and computational methods, text analysis, and formal modeling.