Jonne Kamphorst

Jonne Kamphorst was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Europe Center in 2022. He has received his PhD in Political Science at the European University Institute in 2023 and is currently a Scholar at Stanford’s Politics and Social Change Lab and the Human-centered Artificial Intelligence institute. He will start as an Assistant Professor in Political Science and Quantitative Social Science Methods at Sciences Po in Paris in January 2026. Jonne’s work focuses on the politics and societies of advanced democracies and lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political behaviour. Two questions define his research agenda: 1) What are the origins of contemporary political divisions? And 2) how can democracy be strengthened by re-engaging voters and bridging political divides? He explores both these topics leveraging quantitative scientific methods that employ an experimental logic, specifically (field and survey) experiments, methods of causal inference, as well as novel computational methods leveraging large language models. His research has been published at PNAS, the American Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets.