Kévin Saudé

Kévin Saudé

PhD Candidate in Politics

University of Limerick, Ireland

Biography

I’m currently doing research at The University of Limerick under the supervision of Dr. Rory Costello, on the effect of party system polarisation on mass political behaviour. My PhD dissertation is entitled “Firing up the base: The effect of party system polarisation on positive and negative partisanship in Western Europe between 1999-2019” and completion is expected in January 2023.

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Interests
  • Party politics
  • European Politics
  • French politics
  • Cycling
  • Aviation
Education
  • Ph.D in Politics, 2022 (expected)

    University of Limerick, Ireland

  • B.A. Joint Hons in Sociology and Politics, 2018

    University of Limerick, Ireland

Courses attended

Methods-Net
Radboud University summer school on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
Factor analysis, mediation analysis, correction for measurement error
ECPR
The statistics of Causal inference (online)
Diff-in-Diff, Instrumental Variables, Regression discontinuity
See certificate
ECPR
Party Politics summer school in Aarhus University
A week-long series of morning lectures introducing the current state-of-the-art in Party Politics (party membership, Saliency Theory, election pledges, party responsiveness, party cues). In the afternoon, attendees presented a paper related to their doctoral research.
See certificate
ECPR
Applied regression analysis (online)
Model-building, diagnostic, survey analysis
See certificate
ECPR
Multilevel Modelling in regression analyses (online)
Model-building, centering, diagnostic
See certificate
ECPR
Introduction to R (online)
See certificate